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...keeping the Government off the backs of the people, Douglas did not mean the people who run Big Business. He was a classic New Deal liberal. As chairman of the SEC from 1937 to 1939, he responded with a resounding "Hooey!" to stock-market leaders who insisted they could regulate themselves. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 by President Franklin Roosevelt, Douglas brought with him a thorough knowledge of corporate finance that he later used to shape many little-known but far-reaching decisions affecting the Government's power to regulate the economy...
...than the booboisie. When real goose-steppers came along, Mencken failed to perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found no more sense in Faulkner than in "the wop boob, Dante." He never understood the scars of the Depression and compared the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt to those of "a snake-oil vendor at a village carnival...
...book is preposterous," says Harvard's venerable historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, who sailed the area himself before writing his Pulitzer-prize-winning biography of Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Admiral Morison takes issue particularly with reports in Triangle attributed to Columbus. "It's almost all hooey. Columbus never reported seeing white water in the area. None of the early navigators made any complaints about it. The whole Spanish Main went through it." Says University of Miami Oceanographer Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many...
...there was a lot of putrid water on the floor and lots of rats." The tour includes thumbnail sketches of such famed alumni as Al Capone ("He had syphilis and eventually died of it") and Robert Stroud, the so-called Birdman of Alcatraz ("The movie was a bunch of hooey -Stroud was a nasty person who killed...
...nation's greatest law professors (at both Columbia and Yale) and as a combative chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the New Deal. (When stock-exchange representatives once argued long and repetitively in favor of self-regulation, Douglas closed them off with an explosive "Hooey!") He will also be remembered as a prescient conservationist and, of course, as the court's most activist liberal judge from the beginning...