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...internationalism than the pathway of political ideas. The need for international force is sanely handled; a modified method of representation of small nations in the League Assembly is proposed. If one views the present era of economic nationalism from the alarmist point of this is of course all drivel...
...when even the leading metropolitan dailies have apparently forsaken the respectable tradition of impartiality in their news columns, to propagandize for what they choose to call a sound dollar. Of particular social value are your candid, intelligible, impartial discussions of this difficult subject, when so many we read are drivel and buncombe. Congratulations...
Being myself in the business of helping some of my fellow citizens learn how to be authors, I have read with great interest your quotation from the Author & Journalist in your April 17 issue, which you entitled "Drivel Racket." I know the author of the article you quoted and can vouch for his complete sincerity in his exposure of the gyp games in the literary instruction field...
...various occasions publishing humbuggery has been reported to the Post Office Department which has refused to take action on the grounds that the agencies actually did not promise to accomplish more than they did-i. e., print the absurd drivel sent them. However, reputable agents are currently trying to arouse action by the Federal Trade Commission which has broader powers. Author & Journalist pointed out the adroit wording of the publishers' provocative letters to Lottie, also called attention to the major catch in the publishers' schemes: In no case was Lottie told just how many copies of The Missing...
...concocting frontpage publicity, for their state papers if they are "small-shots," and for nationwide publicity blankets if they are Hucy Longs. And the literate morons lap it up, the intelligent must suffer. But in the end they stop themselves. "Like Hoflin, they become obsessed with their own drivel, they take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening to Huey Long. If this article demonstrates no other sad truths, it shows, with Machiavellian clearness, that Huey is no hard-working rough...