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...such titles suggested, a small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Globe, Ed Howe responded to a speech of felicitation by Senator Arthur Capper: "When...
...Recovery bandwagon, but once (1927-30) Pennsylvania's Republican Governor. He had made a speech in which he criticized NRA for making "no provisions for financing the load of rising costs which it necessarily placed on producer and consumer." When General Johnson heard this he dispatched a curt six-line letter demanding Mr. Fisher's resignation. To reporters, the General snapped: "Sabotage...
...student, however, will feel that it is not quite enough. He is likely to look behind the surface of this curt manifesto and to find there nothing but timidity. If it is a legal tangle that University Hall fears, then let it look to the law, and discover that there is nothing in it to prohibit the sort of thing in question. If, as is very likely, University Hall is clinging to tradition in the fear that dining hall decorum will be upset by the entrance of liquor, and in the fear that the name of Harvard University will thereby...
...Washington the Biological Survey scotched the rumor for the present with a curt. "Absolutely nothing to it.'' But the Survey did admit that such a ban has been threatened for some years, might be discussed next summer. Why it may come was the subject of the More Game Birds report...
...Wiggin. While Inquisitor Pecora was digging into Cuban matters, he paused and, without comment, put into the record a curt letter written the day before...