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...onetime Democratic Congressman; 3) he was a pre-Repeal Dry; 4) he weighed 200 lb.; 5) he was an Elk, Mason, Moose, Odd Fellow, Shriner, Legionary; 6) his favorite expression was "By Golly"; 7) he was a tireless and sometime tiring speaker; 8) his wife, Clara, played the harp. But all these things combined were outweighed by the fact that rich & radical Senator Couzens had appeared to love the New Deal too dearly since that raw day in 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt moved into the White House...
Other advertisements in the series: "A Word to a Wise Woman" (taxes). "The Myth About Men & Machines." "Two Billion People Envy You." The last two prepared by Campbell-Ewald Co., harp the slogan, "There is No Way Like the American Way." NAM paid for the first test insertions but the plan is to have news papers sell the series as ready-made copy, the space to be paid for by individual manufacturers or local trade bodies. A number of the advertisements have appeared on this basis...
...common American conception of such an individual comes from a mass of propaganda circulated abroad by certain malicious agencies with offices in New Haven, Princeton, Hanover and other provincial cities. This picture of the Harvard man, now generally taken for granted along with Mrs. Landon's harp and the Constitution, is the product of the same sort of mind that thinks every Italian should look like Mussolini and almost every Russian should wear a beard...
When San Franciscans loudly applauded his harp-playing, famed Pantomimist Arthur ("Harpo") Marx stepped to the footlights, said "Thank you," broke a 13-year public silence...
Would any other oldtime California tobacconists care to enlarge the Phelan cigar legend?-ED. Mrs. Landon's Harp String...