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Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual...
...York Times estimate which included 1,500 who stood in the rain outside listening to loudspeakers. The antiC. I. O. New York Herald Tribune figured "20,000 to 30,000." Pro-Hague, the New York Sun shot the works...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...
...American Federation of Teachers were convened last week, was, once more, whether the A. F. of T. would continue its longtime affiliation with the American Federation of Labor or switch over to the C. I. O. The C. I. O. partisans are, in the main, labor idealists. The antiC. I. O. faction is opposed to the idea of industrial unionization, which would lump them together with janitors, waitresses, cooks, furnacemen, everyone else who worked around a school. There were plenty of hot words on both sides. Potent pleader foi the A. F. of L. was Henry Ohl Jr., chunky, prey...
...over at this session, wanted chiefly to keep the question open while they got in further spade work. Moreover, the resolution condemned A. F. of L.'s suspension of C. I. O. unions as "undemocratic action," put the Teachers' Federation on record as refusing to pay special antiC. I. O. assessments levied by A. F. of L., commended "the great success" of C. I. O. in organizing mass production industries. Another sign of which way the wind was blowing was the re-election of C. I. O.-minded President Davis by a comfortable margin over a Chicago opponent...