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...have been a little anxious as a Democrat," said the Tory Leader at Leeds, "that the right of free speech has been denied to my friend MacDonald. . . . This shouting down of people and refusing to hear arguments ... is more than stupid. It is bad." Demos continued, however, to boo Stanley's friend Ramsay off the boards and the only speech Mr. MacDonald was able to finish last week he made in a soundproof broadcasting studio at Newcastle. Beside himself with worry, the pathetic Scot seemed to forget that it was Ramsay MacDonald who insisted on running at Seaham against...
...grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering and began to boo so loudly that the rest of Gambi's remarks about going back to Italy to join the army remained happily inaudible...
Senator Bulkley of Ohio had dared to defy Coughlin-inspired telegrams, vote against the Patman bill. "That's his death warrant!" screeched Priest Coughlin. The audience booed approval. Swaying and flailing his arms like a college cheerleader, the priest kept the boo going on & on, finally stopped it with an imperious gesture...
...hilarious as a Nazi Jew flogging would be. Unquestionably, nothing is so diverting as brutally to mistreat a group of earnest, serious men who are giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...
...morning and an evening Hearstpaper which look like Hearstpapers everywhere; 2)a Scripps-Howard paper which differs from others only in its tabloid size; 3) the fat old Washington Evening Star which bulges with more advertising than any other sheet in the country and never dares to say "Boo"; 4) and the Washington Post. The Post attracted little serious attention while irresponsible Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean was running it into the ground. But since Eugene Meyer snapped it up at auction last summer (TIME, June 19) it has been doing things...