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...Short, glib Joshua Bryan (for William Jennings) Lee is an ordained Baptist minister, in the Senate represents legally dry Oklahoma. To the bill to draft 18-& 19-year-olds he tacked an amendment: ". . . In the interest of the common defense it shall be unlawful within such reasonable distance of any military camp, station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of War shall determine . . . for any person, corporation, partnership, or association to sell, supply, give or have in his or its possession any alcoholic liquors, including beer, ale, or wine...
...Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
Reese went to work with a staff of efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...
...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
This danger is amply illustrated by the glib way in which the Council's report, after a detailed analysis of the problem, dismisses with a statement the suggestion that proposed courses on Great Authors, and American Thought and Institutions, be made compulsory. Though the Faculty recently voted to establish these courses on an elective basis, there remains a large Faculty block in favor of their being required. To cram these courses down the throats of all students is contrary to every concept of a true liberal education. It is to set up as absolute one interpretation of a problem that...