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"The Four Minute Men were a nation wide organization of public speakers under Government control during the period of America's participation in the World War Although the idea and early plans for the Four Minute Men originated in Chicago in the early part of April 1917 the work officially became a division of the Committee on Public Information on June 16 1917 when the national headquarters were removed to Washington The national organization and all its branches ended official existence on December 241 1918 Between these dates the Four Minute Men of America numbering about 75,000 speakers throughout 37 speaking campaigns delivered over 750,000 speeches to audiences totalling 315,000,000 persons The speeches were delivered almost exclusively in the motion picture theatres of the country during four minute intermissions The work was organized in 7,448 cities and towns including every State in the Union." books.google.com/books?id=SvQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA43&lp...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Hall en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_(Ward)

Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign

Orville Harrold (1878 – 23 October 1933), American operatic tenor and musical theatre actor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Harrold

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