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...various reasons, all would call Socialism "rot." Besides Banker Morgan, Blues include such assorted types as Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chairman William Morgan Butler of the G. O. P., William Wrigley Jr., William Randolph Hearst, James J. Tunney, Will Durant, Henry Louis Mencken, Walter P. Chrysler, Charles Albert Levine...
Said the New York World: "The country loses one of its ablest newspapermen . . . one of the few men of the city [Baltimore] who never fell under the spell of the methods for which H. L. Mencken stands. . . While the Evening Sun [Mr. Mencken's]was saying in effect that it is a pretty sordid world and all jobholders ought to be hung,* Mr. Adams clung to his old sentimental love of the human race.'' Said H. L. Mencken in the Evening Sun: "Of all the journalists I have known in this life, the late Jonh Haslup Adams...
...Carl R. Roden, who will act as a sort of gun-bearer. Mr. Roden was appointed after the previous librarian had been discharged through the efforts of Judge Frederick Bausman. Judge Bausman recently contributed an anti-British article to the American Mercury, which is edited by Mr. Henry L. Mencken. Every loyal supporter of Mayor Thompson wishes that these gentlemen will have a happy and successful lion hunt. It would be poor sportsmanship to wish anything else, or to point out that not only the Revolutionary War, but all succeeding ones, are now concluded by treaties of peace...
Among the authors of the first series of articles are Herbert C. Hoover, Curtis D. Wilbur, H. L. Mencken, General W. W. Atterbury, Newton D. Baker, John Hays Hammond, Charles M. Schwab, and Dean H. S. Graves of Yale. Included in the first list are seven past or present Cabinet members and several members of Congress...
Perhaps for the first time in history the Republican Party, George Jean Nathan, and H. L. Mencken are in approximate agreement. For some years ago, when the latter announced their platform as nominees for President and Vice-President of the United States, in Smart Set, they advocated that all living members of the Roosevelt family be sent to Leavenworth. It would seem that the big-wigs of the Grand Old Party to a man would wish at least one were safely there now, for Trotsky preaching Bolshevism on the White House lawn could scarcely produce stronger consternation or disapprobation than...