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...small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Globe, Ed Howe responded to a speech of felicitation by Senator Arthur Capper: "When we're criticized...
...found that his grandfather's fame kept getting in his way. Franklin was a national hero but Washington and the Federalists disliked his philosophy and feared his politics: they shut every political door in his grandson's face. Franklin fitted Benny up in a printshop and expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles...
...settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles of Insurrection, Anarchy and Confusion, the greatest of fools, and the most stubborn sans-culotte in the United States." He was attacked on the street, denounced as a spy, his printshop windows were broken. In the summer of 1798 yellow fever settled on Philadelphia, every paper suspended publication except Benny's and his old enemy Cobbett's. One hot midnight Death came for 29-year-old Benny Bache; an hour later his widow was printing a defiance...
...Vatican printshop last fortnight went a long document entitled Quadragesima Anno ("In the 40th Year"). To the world Press and to a throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...
...record of Representative Edgar Howard of the Third Nebraska District is as follows : Born: at Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 16, 1858. Start in life: a printer's devil. Career: aged 13, he went to work in a printshop at Glenwood, Iowa. He went to public school, worked his way through Western Collegiate Institute, attended Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave...