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...tone left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant. According to one austere authority, the word is "a lower grade of colloquialism." Of obscure origin, it was given classic definition in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which in 1895 reported. "A Georgia editor kindly explains that 'a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or principles and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknothical assumnacy.' " How serious a charge "talknothical assumnacy" was, no one seemed...
...good grey New York Times, which can pack more into a lead sentence than a Saratoga trunk should be expected to hold, sometimes can't get the lid closed. Last week a special dispatch from Johannesburg began: "Nationalist Party members of Parliament, sitting as the High Court of Parliament, handed down a ruling today setting aside the appeal court's invalidation of the Voters Act that removed colored (mixed blood) voters from the common electoral roll...
Churchill's supporters could hardly believe that this was all their leader had to say. His famous oratorical power showed only in faint flashes, usually when he flicked at the critics ("Standing so smiling and carefree at the dispatch box, as if [they] had no responsibility for the shocking and shameful state to which our finances were reduced during [their] tenure . . .") or sniped like a Falstaffian schoolmaster at his hecklers...
...Paul (Minn.) Dispatch and Pioneer Press, Duluth Herald and News-Tribune, the Aberdeen (S.Dak.) American-News, Grand Forks (N. Dak.) Herald, Manhattan's Journal of Commerce, the German-language Staats-Zeitung & Herald, and a large block of stock in the Seattle Times...
Into San Jose as the new publisher will go Joseph Ridder, 32, now general manager of the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press. The Ridders picked well. They have a monopoly in San Jose and dominate an expanding industrial area. They now have their eyes on two other California papers, the Long Beach Independent and Press-Telegram...