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Readers who have smiled to see Mencken jeer, these five prosperous years in the green Mercurial jacket, at go-getter, hundred-percenter, live-wire, inspirational, egotistic pep stuff, were shocked to see him strut himself in such an inept business-getting manner. Their conclusion was that he has joined his own "hated Philisterei...
That great Democratic vote-getter David Ignatius Walsh, Wet Catholic, retained his Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
...significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents "Jix's Pride." That is to say, the squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means...
...real estate properties is not sufficiently arduous to prevent his spending days and weeks contemplating the sea from one of the three decks of the "Light of My Soul." It might indeed be impossible for the perfect yachtsman to be a mentally aggressive fur-trader and land-getter, as was Commodore Astor's famed great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor...
Others said?It was the first serious reverse for Hooverism; the Hoover vote was confined to the cities, betraying his grave unpopularity among farmers; the lightness of the vote beat Hoover; were he a potent vote-getter a big vote would have turned out; if ever there was a State where he should have been able to win it was Indiana, where Candidate Watson's local machine had been shockingly exposed as corrupt and Klan-ridden. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon executed for the Chicago Tribune a picture entitled: "This will make the race interesting to watch," showing Candidate Hoover...