Word: nathanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mencken and George Jean Nathan, iconoclast editors of Smart Set, delight in insulting their fellow men. Each month they proclaim in Smart Set their candidacy for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States and announce various platform planks, of which the following are typical...
...Mencken agrees, if elected, to deport the whole Roosevelt family. Mr. Nathan dissents on the ground that the act would be unconstitutional." " They agree that Major-General Wood should be provided for, but disagree as to the means. Mr. Mencken favors keeping the General in the Philippines; Mr. Nathan advocates getting him a job as an archbishop in Soviet Russia...
Heading the committee is Miss Esther Everett Lape, writer and a prominent supporter of Governor Pinchot, elected in Pennsylvania last Fall. Other members of the committee are: John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain; Federal Judge Learned Hand; William H. Johnston, President of the International Association of Machinists; Nathan L. Miller, recent Governor of New York; Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War; Melville E. Stone, of the Associated Press; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publisher of the New York Tribune; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the former...
...York City's Silver Jubilee) acclaimed me as one of a number of ' civic heroes' who have done most good for the greater city since its creation 25 years ago. Others similarly chosen were: Mrs. E. H. Harriman (whose private benefactions have been considerable), Nathan Straus and Mrs. Millicent Hearst (whose picture as a public benefactor can be viewed almost daily in her husband's press...
...Chairman, P. R. Harmel, Sylvia Weisbuch; M. Weisbuch, Elizabeth Smith; E. Kavinoky, Irene Rose; G. Nathan, Berthe Mitchell; L. Levy, Rose Long; J. Collins, Paula Freedman, Caroline Heller; W. Silverman, Viola Cornez; R. P. Kantor, Rose Sachs; T. T. Cook, Gertrude Davis...