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High-tariff Republicans call Cordell Hull a free-trader. He calls himself a Jeffersonian Democrat committed to tariff-for-revenue-only. In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic...
...later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every...
...Globe and to Punch, his "Shilling Nonesence," and his literary recipes. Of the last the "Kippling Chutnee" might be quoted as an example: "This pickle has a pecular mordant quality which distinguishes it from all others. The chief ingredient is unwashed English, chopped, and broken, and bruised with a brazen instrument. Then work in chips and fragments of cynicism the seven cardinal sins, the 'Civil Service Regulations,' profanity, the Southern Cross, and genius. Spice with a Tipperary brogue...
Given Red Dust's brazen moral values, Gable & Harlow have full play for their curiously similar sort of good-natured toughness. The best lines go to Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel, reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. Her effortless vulgarity, humor and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson. Noteworthy too is the fake jungle, a marvel of impenetrability...
Last week Tammany Hall, aided & abetted by the blowzy New York City Republican machine, pulled off a political deal incredibly brazen even for Tammany. Behind the deal lay implications reaching out of the municipal situation through the State, perhaps even into the national election...