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...Entirely fallacious," said he, "is the popular conception of the average college student as a gin-drinking, jazz-crazy, sex-feverish iconoclast with communistic leanings who scoffs at the ideas of an older generation. . . . Repeal apparently has had a sobering effect on youth. The jazz age is definitely gone...
...yelling delight of his admirers have by this time had such a bludgeoning that they look more like scarecrows than opponents. But he still goes on pounding the stuffing out of bogeymen that once seemed giants. Treatise on Right & Wrong, a companion piece to Treatise on the Gods, is Iconoclast Mencken's first book in four years and the first fruits of his retirement (last autumn) from the editorship of The American Mercury (TIME, Oct. 16). With a sturdy contempt for philosophers, metaphysicians and theologians ("They are specialists in penetrating the impenetrable, or they are nothing"), Mencken tramps into...
...Christianity through a perfect marriage. John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past...
...brokerage house and he swore he was through forever. He even wrote a big-seller, My Adventures with Your Money, exposing all the tricks of his trade. But back he came and this time for big money. To inspire faith among ignorant investors, his "financial" sheet, The Wall Street Iconoclast, attacked margin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, advised widows & orphans to keep their money in savings banks, recommended the purchase of sound listed securities. But the Iconoclast also managed to keep such Rice stocks as Idaho Copper, General Mining and Colombia Emerald constantly in his readers' minds...
This week George Graham Rice will have on the newsstands a successor to his defunct Iconoclast-a weekly called Rice's Financial Watchtower, 25? the copy. Just what George Graham Rice will watch from his tower was not clear, but his sheet is "millitant and pro-Roosevelt." Leading editorial in the first issue: "POWER & RESPONSIBILITY." Excerpt: "Any man who wields power without recognizing his responsibility is a menace. Big Finance has been that. . . . [The Big Financiers] have cut away the sand from under their own feet and have dug their graves. In another year or so new laws...