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"Volunteers to Make 1,000 Speeches Daily. Four-Minute Men Plan Active Loan Campaign." The Pittsburgh Sun, [27] September 1918.
More than 1,000 speeches a day will be made in Allegheny county during the fourth Liberty loan drive by local four-minute men and other volunteer speakers. Provided with their credentials at a meeting of the war orators at the University club last night, the speaking staff prepared today to begin work. Two hundred orators already are enrolled and at the headquarters of the speakers' bureau in the Union Arcade this morning many recruits were volunteering their services.
W. S. Diggs, chairman of the four-minute men, declared that his staff of speakers expected to reach audiences averaging from 75,000 to 85,000 daily. In his address to the speakers Harrison Nesbit, associate director in charge of the speaking activities in the 19 Western Pennsylvania counties, declared that the military situation is rapidly clearing up under the guidance of General John J. Pershing and his victorious troops, but that the greatest problem before the country is the adequate financing of the war. He urged the speakers to "talk Liberty loan" on all occasions and in every place.
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