Robert Trout's Death

The radio host Robert Trout died at the age of 91. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Radio reporter of the 1930s and 1940s who pioneered many of now staple parts of news broadcasts.

He was born Robert Albert Blondheim in Washington, D.C.

Trout, who died of congestive heart failure at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Quotes

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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

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The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke’s philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.