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...land boom, two hurricanes, a plague of Mediterranean fruit flies and a Depression laid Florida low. A Brooklyn-born Yaleman has done what he could to hoist it to its feet. Jolly, plump Dave Sholtz went to Florida at 22 to study law. Becoming an Elk, a Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
...reason, nevertheless, is economic, not political, and viewed impartially the situation furnishes, in its own way, an example of somewhat poetic justice. Furthermore it has the merit of being illustrated in such a form that even a Rotarian can grasp its significance. Whether Germany can afford to pay the million or so additional dollars which payment of 100 pfennigs on the mark would mean is beside the point, nor will aspersions on the integrity of the German Government or aides memoires suffice to raise the ante. The important thing is that while Germany undoubtedly has both the gold and dollar...
...content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left over from education and lodge meetings he spends studying botany, raising flowers, fishing...
Sample of Author Muggeridge's distaste for Russia: "Jerry-built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
...Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks...