America Speaks: A Library of the Best Spoken Thought in Business and the ProfessionsBasil Gordon Byron, Frederic Reni Coudert There is need for a codification of the newspaper laws which would be separate and distinct from the same laws when applied to individuals. This is quite apparent on its face. For instance, the newspapers and magazines are no longer local in their influence. They are national in their circulation, therefore in their influence. You go down upon the streets of our city to-day, and you can find for sale newspapers and magazines from every large city in the world.-from "Newspaper Law"When this collection of speeches and essays was published, global civilization was facing some of the greatest challenges of the 20th century: the truck and the automobile were transforming industrial and personal transport; the airplane was shrinking the planet; international diplomacy and politics were still settling into a new postwar dynamic. Here, some of the greatest minds in the corporate, legal, governmental, and sociocultural arenas share their wisdom on the current state and possible futures of the United States in this formidable new era.From new frontiers in law to the burgeoning power of the consumer, from the coming conflicts over religion to the potential of the federal government to shape the new society that was being born, a new world was being born. Discover the thoughts of the men who were inventing it, including: Louis Brandeis . Clarence Darrow . Benjamin Cardozo . Haley FiskeOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. . Herbert Hoover . Henry Cabot LodgeJulius Mayer . Andrew Mellon . John D. Rockefeller, Jr. . Charles M. Schwaband many more. |
Contents
LODGE HENRY CABOT | 286 |
LOWELL JOHN | 292 |
MAYER JULIUS M | 295 |
NAGEL CHARLES | 302 |
OWEN ROBERT L | 311 |
PERRY JOHN HOLLIDAY | 318 |
POUND ROSCOE | 336 |
REA SAMUEL | 354 |
| 116 | |
DE BOWER HERBERT FRANCIS | 136 |
EYRICH JR George | 148 |
FISKE HALEY | 165 |
GARY ELBERT HENRY | 178 |
HAYS WILL | 188 |
HENDERSON PAUL | 200 |
HEPBURN A BARTON | 208 |
HOOVER HERBERT CLARK | 217 |
HUGHES CHARLES EVANS | 234 |
HUMPHREY WILLIAM | 241 |
KAHN OTTO HERMANN | 251 |
LAMONT THOMAS WILLIAM | 265 |
LITTLETON MARTIN WILIE | 282 |
REED JAMES | 367 |
RIPLEY WILLIAM | 374 |
ROOT ELIHU | 391 |
SPILLMAN HARRY COLLINS | 407 |
STEUER MAX D | 422 |
STONE HARLAN FISKE | 441 |
WHITE EDWARD Douglas | 451 |
WICKERSHAM GEORGE WOODWARD | 459 |
WISE JOHN SERGEANT | 467 |
YOUNG OWEN D | 478 |
EPIGRAMS | 493 |
ANECDOTES | 515 |
INDEX | 539 |
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Page 193 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
Page 23 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
Page 23 - Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 18 - O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
Page 18 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 23 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 216 - I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.
Page 216 - I do not think the United States would come to an end If we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
Page 235 - The intellectual and physical strength of the nations, labor, and capital are for the major part diverted from their natural application and unproductively consumed. Hundreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which, though to-day regarded as the last word of science, are destined to-morrow to lose all value in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field. National culture, economic progress and the production of wealth are either paralyzed or checked in...
Page 216 - Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.