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...rainy half hour R. L. McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...
There were some 500 Kiwanians at a Kiwanis convention in Superior. President Coolidge is a Kiwanian. He had his picture taken with the 500. A Kiwanian from Milwaukee desired to have his picture taken standing beside Kiwanian Coolidge, without the other 499. He had his own small camera there and a son to click it. Kiwanian Coolidge consented...
...this opus his sledge descends first upon "Journalism in America": "Most of the evils that continue to beset American journalism today, in truth, are not due to the rascality of owners nor even to the Kiwanian bombast of business managers, but simply and solely to the stupidity of working newspaper men. The majority of them in almost every American city are still ignoramuses and proud...
...Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine in the origin of Rotary." Its statements are dignified nowadays and Rotarians will smile indulgently if they read in the June American Mercury that St. Patrick has been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary no longer needs imaginary prestige. It has its own. Such men as Commander Francesco de Pinedo have accepted honorary Rotaryhood. Into the teeth of Novelist Sinclair Lewis' castigations Rotary now can fling George Bernard Shaw's retort: "Any sort of an organization is better than...
Then suddenly, and even more startlingly, he turned political interpreter ; knocked self-satisfied smiles of "our country, right or wrong" off Kiwanian faces; said: "If the time ever comes when public offices can be virtually bought and sold, then the downfall of the Republic...