Word: peepul
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...story concerning the difficulties confronting Oilman Doherty (TIME, July 20) brings to mind the fact that Jim Reed is a brother of the owner of one of the largest utilities in Iowa. John Reed's system operates a short distance from the Missouri line. Perhaps interest in the "peepul" parallels his interest in the Reed family...
Some typical Smith-in-action which 100 or more of the peepul went home and told their friends about last week, was the following...
...cinema industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...
Four years ago, Publisher Hearst entertained another Mayor of New York, his stout friend John F. Hylan. When he got home, Mayor Hylan described the wonders of Hearstland to the peepul of New York, as follows...
...having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator Heflin lent his bovine eloquence, carrying on the Wall-Street-v.-Peepul theory until he had demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. The latter and a "crooked" subordinate had aided & abetted the cotton and grain "gambling gang" (brokers), roared Mr. Heflin. Let such rascals resign or be run out of Washington...