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...smiled to see Mencken jeer, these five prosperous years in the green Mercurial jacket, at go-getter, hundred-percenter, live-wire, inspirational, egotistic pep stuff, were shocked to see him strut himself in such an inept business-getting manner. Their conclusion was that he has joined his own "hated Philisterei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strutting Magazineman | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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