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...longer do we have to turn on radio programs featuring Stoopnagle and Budd, Fred Allen, or even Joe Penner, in a desperate search for amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson...
...From the rostrum of Duke University's expensive chapel one evening last week Dr. Broadus Mitchell, an economist of Johns Hopkins University, looked with misgiving upon an audience of fur-coated coeds. Said...
...generations one oyster's offspring, closely packed together, would bulk eight times as large as the earth. Last week on the first day of the 74th Congress, Representatives, less prolific than oysters, dropped 2,964 bills into the bill box at the right of the Speaker's rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise be in sore confusion. But the chances of a bill's surviving are like the chances of an embryo oyster. Legislative name for this survival-of-the-fittest is "Gag Rule...
...Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. Then, after three years, "Ace" is sickened by the casualty lists, decides to end the fighting...
Three pacifists will take the rostrum against war tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, when Powers Hapgood of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, and Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, will address Harvard and Radcliffe students on that general subject...