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Democrat Byrnes. Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, New Deal trouble shooter, was sent north this week to push over teetering New York State, coordinate ineffectual Boss Ed Flynn, amateur Tommy Corcoran. Charged Byrnes, speaking of a Willkie blast at insufficient conscription housing: "Result of Mr. Willkie's misleading statement . . . was to strike fear into the hearts of American mothers. . . ." (On tanks) "Mr. Willkie was unfair to the President, to the Army and to the Chrysler Corporation...
Ducking out of a conference with New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran forgot to duck when he entered a small city-owned car. He shattered the glass dome light with his head, was treated for a nasty cut on his crown...
Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...
Lewis sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...
...Major Corcoran strongly admires Franklin Roosevelt and "that remarkable woman who is his wife," as strongly deprecates the U. S. male's rabbitlike divorcing habits, his "I-can-take-it creed." Of the touted U. S. vitality he remarks: "No one was ever less of a born go-getter than the American. He is almost saurian in his sloth." Nervous instability is quite another matter: "I have never seen so much St. Vitus dance as since I've been here." For some years Wyndham Lewis has been one of the toughest, most provocative satirists alive. It is something...