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Campaign songs excoriating the opposing party are as old as U. S. politics. Of all U. S. Presidents, George Washington alone escaped. After his unanimous election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...
...ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...
...which British radio listeners may well have thought were words spoken by His Majesty in his native Amharic-until an announcer cleared up the mistake. As Good Old Haile Selassie withdrew into the house, 1,000 admirers out front snapped up popular dailies, one of which cried under a banner headline: ''Haile Selassie is a welcome visitor, for he belongs to that band of men with the courage to stand up against tyranny and stand by what is right at the risk of death in order that justice might live...
...Memorial Day an airplane roared over New England trailing a banner inscribed: AMERICA AWAKE, THE OXFORD GROUP, STOCKBRIDGE. With the local post of the American Legion the Groupers paraded, held a meeting in front of the Stockbridge town hall. Leader of the parade, in a dirty, beaded leather jacket, was an Indian chief named Uhm-Pa-Tuth, billed as a Stockbridge (Mohican) Indian who had ended up on a reservation in Wisconsin, there turned to God and away from civilization and education which, he told the meeting, "don't make an Indian or anybody else any bet-ter." Marchers...
...most highly publicized execution in months and a banner opportunity for Britain's No. 1 Anti-Capital-Punishment Crusader, plump Mrs. Violet Van der Elst. The widow of a Belgian shaving-cream tycoon (Shavex), her jail-gate antics before the hanging of British murderers used to fill British authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic...