Politics via Loud: Speaker
A Useful Ally © NERAL CHARLES DAWES, the American Ambassador in England; remarked during a recent speech that he regarded radio as one of the best. means of maintaining law and order . and good government. , "Ror some inexplicable reason," he continued, "when persons listen through the wireless to the speeches of ‘politicians, their instincts are not roused in the same way as they are in a crowd.. The best illustration of this was the Democratic Convention held in New York, when the speeches caused the crowd present to howl in a perfect frenzy, while a much larger crowd of * 25,000 to 30,000 people listening io those same speeches through loud? speakers were as silent as death." "In other words," he concluded, "He crowd listening over the radio behayéd. as individuals and not as a crowd, and, their mob instincts were not. roused:"
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 16, 31 October 1930, Page 17
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145Politics via Loud: Speaker Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 16, 31 October 1930, Page 17
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