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Professor Elmer E. Nyberg, who teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...
When World War I threatened its manganese supply, the U. S. increased purchases of ore from Cuba and Brazil, began working its own submarginal deposits. In 1918, by exploiting low-grade deposits in Montana and California, the U. S. produced 16.8% of the world supply (35% of its own consumption). Its cost was so high that within a few years after the Armistice domestic production had dribbled almost to the vanishing point. Steelmen wrote off the U. S., along with Cuba, as sources of manganese. Last week it appeared from the annual report of Freeport Sulphur Co. that steelmen...
...Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian or Indian. Not until 1929 (three years after Greenway had died, four years before his widow became a Congresswoman) did Dave Goodrich, chairman of the board of B. F. Goodrich & Co., reflect again on Cuba's mineral possibilities...
Married. Comedienne Grade Fields, 42, "darling of the Maginot Line"; and Monty Banks, 42, onetime silent cinema comedian, now producerdirector; both for the second time; after a flight from reporters who spotted them when they applied for a marriage license under their real names, Grace Stansfield and Mario Bianchi; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...writing, generally deft, hovers too often between good prose and bad poetry. But as the record of an inquisitive intelligence set down with humor and clarity, the diffuseness is of minor importance, and the sharp observation counts. Summer's Lease is an unusually rich and readable second-grade book...