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...Cherokee, Iowa, where he used to teach high school and coach a championship football team, David Wallace Stewart, recently nominated by Republicans and appointed by Governor Hammill to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Cummins (TIME, Aug. 9, THE CONGRESS), made his first political blurb at an annual homecoming. He "deplored sectionalism and provincialism"; he said, "I shall fight with all the power that I have to advance, protect and maintain the best interests of the state of Iowa." (Cheers...
...thing for the party's Presidential nominee." In Raleigh, N. C., a semi-bald, placid, likeable newspaper editor amuses himself and satisfies his readers. He is Josephus Daniels, Democrat, War-time Secretary of the Navy. Last week he became orator once again. Exasperated with hearing farm bloc blurb, he told the Annual Farmers' Convention at North Carolina State College to "awake out of their sleep and go into politics redheaded. . . . There never was a time when farmers had such negligible influence in government as now." And Editor Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped...
Economist Leacock of McGill University, whom they now blurb as "the Canadian Mark Twain," is out with a most helpful compendium of suggestions and brief information for deepening and broadening life. He has written "The Outlines of Everything" from Shakespeare to Science, including the assurance that: "Darwin returned to Europe and wrote a book called Sartor Resartus which definitely established the descent of mankind from the avoirdupois apes," and a careful account of how Shakesbur (or Shaksper, Shicksper, Shagsber, or S.) wrote Henry V with assistance from Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marlowe and a little help from Fletcher. There...
...Built Our Home for $4.90" after the approved manner of the American Magazine. Ladies' culture and gents' luncheon clubs, of which Mr. Leacock addresses a great many, will find a few genial descriptions of themselves, which may or may not move them to agree with the blurb. But if no one agrees, the author need not repine. He is most amusing most of the time and if one cannot be another Mark Twain it is something, after all, to be a Stephen Leacock...