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...bitter, raucous, desk-pounding diatribes against the President and the New Deal. Which is all right. . . . But the trouble with the Republican leaders in Congress and such as I found in the more violent wards of the New York bedlam is that they are just ferninsters They are 'agin' everything and 'for' nothing...
...number of these enemies was perhaps baffling to those investigating Tresca's murder. Said New York's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan: "It seems at some time or other, in politics and personalities, that Tresca was 'agin everything.' " Police had one important witness, several thin leads. A pistol had been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends...
...Well, Rile, I hear Andy's come home agin. Did he graduate this time...
...axiomatic that all Spaniards by temperament are agin the government, even if they like it. It was evident that Dictator Franco was still trying to get some sort of political unity in a land where millions still hate him and the men who stand with him. His greatest problem has been to try to reconcile the Falange and the Catholic Church. The Falange, preaching Spartan morals, worker syndicates and Fascist ideology, has fought with the church over early child training and with business interests fearing leftism. At the same time the Falange has tangled with militarists who say they...
...bread line; then he was visibly moved. What would the Mencken who made such scathing fun of "Dr. Coolidge" and "Dr. Hoover" have thought of the Mencken of 1936, who traipsed along in a Landon parade? "Dr. Roosevelt" had simply replaced Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, and Mencken was agin...