Word: marxmanship
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...last name spelled backward because he doesn't know if he's coming or going."* A competent Latin and Greek scholar, Oliver is a national officer of the John Birch Society. In recent issues of American Opinion, the Birch magazine, he published, under the title "Marxmanship in Dallas," the most elaborate version yet of the diehard "plot" theory of the Kennedy assassination. The Communists executed the President, says Oliver, intending to blame ultrarightists and trigger "a domestic takeover." Not that Oliver misses Kennedy: as long as there are Americans, he writes, Kennedy's "memory will be cherished...
...years of incorruptible efficiency and unprecedented solvency until his defeat in 1940, when the electorate suddenly saw Red, sought an unneeded new broom; of a stroke; in Milwaukee. A dishwasher who later cooked his way through law school, Dan Hoan was a twangy, shotgun orator who restricted his Marxmanship to Labor Day, indulged in class warfare only in 1919, when he declined to play host to King Albert of the Belgians. "I stand for the man who works," proclaimed the mayor of Milwaukee. "To hell with kings...
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