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...take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon...
Most people have never driven a modern automobile. They do not know what free-wheeling is. They still think one has to press a pedal to start the engine and then another when shifting gears. They think shifting gears silently is an accomplishment. They do not mind it when the car roars in second or reverse. They fiddle instinctively with the choke when the motor splutters. They would be startled to see a dashboard with no choke...
...certainly enjoy your clear and fool-proof accounts of the progress of the national election each week. I note that some people have accused you of being pro-Roosevelt, etc. What do they want you to do? Publish a garbled account of the trend of the times, and soft-pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these...
Like Secretary Mills in Boston, Secretary Hurley did not mention Prohibition and his party's Resubmission plank. These omissions were accepted as an indication that nationally the G. O. P. would soft-pedal this issue, at least until the President speaks out on it for himself...
...South Dakota well-digger, last week organized a sub-committee of five. Besides himself, Senator Norbeck appointed Republicans Couzens and Townsend, Democrats Fletcher and Glass. Conspicuously omitted was President Hoover's good friend Senator Walcott of Connecticut, who started the bear hunt. Washington thought he had tried to soft-pedal the inquiry after trapping more Republicans than Democrats in bear's clothing. Four special investigators and an accounting firm were to be hired. Representative La Guardia's explosive testimony was the subcommittee's first move to broaden the hunt to include all stockmarket denizens, all equally vicious in the eyes...