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After three months of angling and investigating (through FBI, Army Intelligence, etc.) the Harold L. Ickeses finally got some hired hands for their Maryland farm: American-born Japanese from an Arizona relocation camp. The young wife of the curmudgeon Secretary (see p. 102) had taken care to ask the neighbors how they felt about having Nisei in their midst, got two reactions: 1) approval, 2) inquiries about the chances of getting the same sort of help...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CURMUDGEON -Harold L. Ickes-Reynal & Hitchcock...
With these characteristic words, Harold Le( )Cla(i)r(e)* I ekes throws a drawerful of gantlets into a gallery of faces and squares off. In his 350 pages Curmudgeon Ickes knots himself up in every possible variety and paradox of his personality, exposing himself mercilessly to his own doubletalk. To discourage any who might feel sympathy for America's most vilified celebrity, Ickes never fails to put his worst foot forward, to beg for brickbats ("Me? I don't mind.") Few readers will be deceived by this psychological strategy. Out of these ungainly, ranting pages...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...Getter (Warners) revives Cappy Ricks, amiable curmudgeon of magazine stories by Peter B. Kyne, in the person of Comedian Charles Winninger, whose specialty of impersonating vaguely nautical characters was developed on stage and screen in Show Boat. The danger of an old stand-by like Cappy Ricks is that even 1937 cinemaddicts, with their amazing willingness to lap up stale treacle of all sorts, are likely to find him a little too outmoded. The device used to circumvent this possibility in The Go-Getter is the elaborate but effective one of opening the action with the 1935 wreck...