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...announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said Dr. Uhler was lucky to escape "servitude in such a hole." Said Dr. Uhler: "I realize that behind -my dismissal there are sinister and powerful influences, difficult to combat. ... I feel like one of the witches bound at the stake in Salem...
...rathering" was his denunciation by name, as uninformed medically and unjust ethically, of Magazine Critics T. Swann Harding, F. C. Kelly, H. L. Mencken, the late J. A. Mitchell...
...Student Reports on B. L. Mencken", Dr. Carpenter, Sever...
...American Language of Henry Louis Mencken is informative and entertaining, but admittedly far from comprehensive...
...born in 1893). Ruth Suckow was a writing child. After she was graduated from the University of Denver she taught there for a while, then took to beekeeping. For six years she was manager-owner of the Orchard Apiary at Earlville, la., ran it at a profit. Henry Louis Mencken, then co-editor of Smart Set, bought her first stories, which pleased him considerably. Soon she switched the bees from their hives to her bonnet, where they have since buzzed to good effect. Two years ago she married one Ferner Nuhn of Cedar Falls, la. She lives in Manhattan, where...