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Believe it or not, the above quotes are from an interview given Michael Mok of the New York Evening Post by clarinetist Artic Shaw...
...should stand alone against the National Recovery tide. For they stood alone against much of that resounding system which made some kind of national recovery a necessity, against the growth of investment banking and the incubation of speculative enterprise. Indeed, there have been indications that they, alone of the mok-a-moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note...
...party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply and openly, by politicians? No really successful civil...
...fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard is relaxing too easily from his position of stern and examining rectitude. Possibly Mr. Villard is right, and Mr. Blanshard is right, in withdrawing support from the Socialist party as a "permanently defeated organization," and in preferring a temporary compromise...
...climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull...