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About five years ago Felix was hailed into court for selling a copy of The American Mercury. H. L. Mencken himself came to Cambridge to defend his production, accompanied by a battery of lawyers. Mencken lost his case and Felix was fined...
...Baltimore, whose State Government had just passed local option laws, Henry Louis Mencken, famed for his beering, quaffed a glass before anxious spectators in the Rennert Hotel bar. "Pretty good." he pronounced. "Not bad at all. Fill it again...
...only constrains large institutions who do not need it, and which will be avoided completely by those to whom it should apply; but the state at large is touched by the whole affair. It is an example of the sort of precipitate absurdity which has for years furnished Mr. Mencken with subjects for his articles, and which has created all the connotations which attach to the word, "America...
...April issue of The American Mercury has little to recommend it. However, Mr. Mencken manages to be interesting in his editorial especially when he writes on Calvin Coolidge. The anecdote which tells of a man who was willing to bet that President Harding would be assassinated before the end of his term, since he was sure that "Cal" was "the demndest lucky man in the world," will possibly be new to most readers...
...other hand, the criticisms of Mr. Mencken and his followers on the innumerable costly futilities of our schools can not be summarily stilled. School budgets remain ill adjusted to a deflated economic order, and support many gadgets much could profitably be eliminated. A few members of the present conference offer the very sensible suggestion that the pruning be placed in the hands of leading educators in each community. Such men, cognizant of both the needed retrenchments and the really indispensable expenditures, can best reach a balance in the dilemma against which our scholastic bureaucracy and befuddled business men committees have...