HOOVER HELD BEST TALKER OF PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS
Hoover Held Best Talker of Presidential Aspirants Wire Tapping Out, Is Jackson Order WASHINGTON, D. C—Wire-tapping for any purpose is out from now on, as far as the federal bureau of investigation...
...Nyberg declared, could receive un better than "a grade of 'incomplete' inasmuch as he is an unknown quantity from the public speaking standpoint...
...President Roosevelt's chief effectiveness lay in his charm and personality which was indicative of a cheerful and friendly individual," he declared...
...Of Postmaster General James A. Farley, Prof...
...Brilre Barton a "B" and Secretary of State Cordell Hull u "C...
...Among the possible dark horse, candidates Prof...
...Hoover in a return bout...
...The Michigan senator was rated on the same level as Mr...
...According to Prof...
...The president's own record will bear this out...
...The "harsh qualltv of Arthur II...
...President Roosevelt, he said, has lost ground as a speaker...
...Prof...
...Nyberg, the quality of President Roosevelt's speeches lately has shown a decline from the high point they held In his rirst and in the early part, of his second administration...
...Hoover Held Best Talker of Presidential Aspirants Wire Tapping Out, Is Jackson Order WASHINGTON, D. C—Wire-tapping for any purpose is out from now on, as far as the federal bureau of investigation is concerned, Attorney-General Robert H. Jackson ordered here...
...Speech Expert Tells of H. H.'s Big Improvement NEW YORK CITY—Herbert Hoover has improved as a speaker more than any other man in public life and at the present time leads all the possible presidential candidates In the content and delivery of his speeches, according to Prof...
...Robert A. Taft's approach Is uncertain.' he continued, "as if he were undecided whether In imitate his father, William Howard Taft, or Teddy Roosevelt...
...Nyberg described as "an orator, not a public speaker...
...Roosevelt still is very much a speaker to be reckoned with and It would be very interesting from a public speaking standpoint to have him meet Mr...
...Vandcnberg's voice often gets him an unfavorable hearing In spile of the high quality of the content of his speeches," he said...
...In conducting the study...
...Jackson's order reinstated the provision in effect until 1931 which declares, "Wire-tapping, entrapment or the use of any other improper, illegal or unethical tactics in procuring information in connection with investigative activity will not be tolerated by the bureau...
...Elmer E. Nyberg of the New York University School of Commerce, who has made a study of speech characteristics of prominent public figures...
...Educators long have recognized that you cannot scold people into better ways...
...Prof...
...ALBANY, N. Y. — Organizational picketing of a company by non-employes was upheld in a significant decision by the state court of appeals...
...However...
...New York Cilv's district attorney, ranked nest in order of effectiveness with a "B-plus...
...Nyberg now puts him down as "A-minus...
...Jackson added that J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, has told him that wire-tapping was used only in limited cases and "that wire-tapping has never been used in minor cases nor on members of congress or officials or any citizen except where charge of grave crime had been lodged against him...
...The educative process is belter enhanced when It is undertaken on a friendly and encouraging basis...
...When he started io scold and scatter meaningless clinches through his talks his speeches lost much of their fonner appeal and effectiveness...
...Roosevelt, formerly was graded as an "A-plus" speaker...
...Thomas E. Dewey...
...The same grade was given to Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, whom Prof...
...Prof...
...Dewey...
...Whereas Mr...
...Nyberg used the same methods of grading he applies to his regular and the adult classes On the basis of content, structure and delivery of recent addresses, he rated Mr Hoover as an "\-plus" speaker in sharp contrast to (he gradv of "D" which he awarded the former Republican president in 1928...
...Vice President John N. Garner...
...U. S. attorneys and attorneys of the department of justice, Jackson's order declared, will be advised that no cases may be presented to a grand jury or otherwise prosecuted in which the evidence was developed in whole or in part as the result of wire-tapping...
...The decision modified a sweeping injunction granted in July 1937 which restrained Local 1125, Retail Women's Apparel Employes Union (CIO), from picketing May's Fur & Ready-to-Wcar Inc., in Brooklyn...
...He ' s given a "C" rating...
...Nyberg said: As a eatch-ns catch-can speaker Jim Farley delivers a remarkable speech, but when he reads a speech he larks effectiveness...
...Nyberg awarded Rep...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
