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The Four Minute Men were entrusted with a function of trying to create a boost of morale in support of the war.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=b14wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA90 The Public School Journal, Volume 38]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YaNCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14 Bulletin, Issues 40-41; Issue 46]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0wlEAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA136 The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia]</ref>
The Four Minute Men were entrusted with a function of trying to create a boost of morale in support of the war.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=b14wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA90 The Public School Journal, Volume 38]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YaNCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14 Bulletin, Issues 40-41; Issue 46]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0wlEAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA136 The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia]</ref>
However, that morale boost may have come with a cost. [[George Creel]], CPI chairman, cynically believed that "catch-phrases constitute a staple article of diet, especially in a democracy", leading to the creation of both the Four Minute Men and what would develop into the universally condemned [[Sound bite]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j0ZKDK4Bg8kC&pg=PA432 Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations]</ref>
However, that morale boost may have come with a cost. [[George Creel]], CPI chairman, cynically believed that "catch-phrases constitute a staple article of diet, especially in a democracy", leading to the creation of both the Four Minute Men and what would develop into the universally condemned [[Sound bite]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j0ZKDK4Bg8kC&pg=PA432 Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations]</ref><ref>[http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4970/ Four Minute Men: Volunteer Speeches During World War I]</ref>
[[Image:Chaplinandfairbanks.jpg|thumb|130px|right|Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks at a Liberty Bond rally, 1918]]
[[Image:Chaplinandfairbanks.jpg|thumb|130px|right|Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks at a Liberty Bond rally, 1918]]