Vital Speeches of the Day (ISSN 0042-742X) is a monthly journal that presents speeches and addresses in full. It was established in New York in 1934 by Thomas Daly — whose grandson Thomas Daly III moved publication to South Carolina in 1986 — and is published by McMurry, Inc. The magazine came to newsstands as of the February, 1935, issue, which included speeches by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr.

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  • Vital Speeches of the Day (ISSN 0042-742X) is a monthly journal that presents speeches and addresses in full. It was established in New York in 1934 by Thomas Daly — whose grandson Thomas Daly III moved publication to South Carolina in 1986 — and is published by McMurry, Inc. The magazine came to newsstands as of the February, 1935, issue, which included speeches by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, David Lawrence, legal expert Ferdinand Pecora, and economist and eugenicist Irving Fisher. As of 1995 the magazine had published speeches by every president since Roosevelt, although the publication avoided campaign speeches; Editor, Thomas Daly IV said of such speeches, "A lot of that is hot air. " According to their policy statement: The publisher of Vital Speeches believes that the important addresses of the recognized leaders of public opinion constitute the best expression of contemporary thought in America, and that it is extremely important for the welfare of the nation that these speeches be permanently recorded and disseminated. The publisher has no axe to grind. Vital Speeches will be found authentic and constructive. The periodical is included in various guides to reference works. These guides typically describe Vital Speeches in politically neutral terms, as when Guide to Reference Materials offered this summary: "Each semimonthly issue contains the full text of some 12 to 15 addresses on public issues delivered by important figures. The editors attempt to select speeches pertaining to all sides of controversial issues. " However, descriptions of specialty collections of speeches often compare the collection favorably to the content of Vital Speeches. A review of Jamye Coleman Williams and McDonald Williams' 1970 work The Negro Speaks: The Rhetoric of Contemporary Black Leaders observed, "Of the thousands of speeches published in Vital Speeches of the Day published before 1970, less than one-tenth of 1 percent were by African Americans. " Similarly, a 1994 review of the 3000 speeches included in Beverly Manning's Index to American Women Speakers, 1828-1978 noted, "Virtually none of these were listed either in Speech Index or Vital Speeches which, as indexing tools, have not been prone to include women's contributions."
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  • Vital Speeches of the Day (ISSN 0042-742X) is a monthly journal that presents speeches and addresses in full. It was established in New York in 1934 by Thomas Daly — whose grandson Thomas Daly III moved publication to South Carolina in 1986 — and is published by McMurry, Inc. The magazine came to newsstands as of the February, 1935, issue, which included speeches by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr.
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  • Vital Speeches of the Day
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