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...Country's Good? In the cloakrooms conservative Democrats talked darkly of expelling Hook from the House; Hookmen suggested the same for Rabble-Rouser Rankin. Gleeful Republicans called it "a Democratic fight" and dealt themselves out. The peacemakers' suggestion was an apology from both contestants. The next day Hook did apologize-for three minutes. Rankin did not. He made a statement "that you may know exactly how I feel. . . . I was not responsible for what occurred yesterday...
...Fuehrer's Face is excellent mockery; but we don't want too much of that. . . . Much better is religious fanaticism; at its grim best in defeat. John Brown's body lay amoldering, but his soul went marching on. Till we get another such real rouser, a song for men, and keep the Julia Ward Howe's lady fingers off it, the popular Praise the Lord, etc., will do to go on with...
Boob-Thumper. Those who were surprised by Gerald Smith's audacious bid for the nomination do not know Gerald Smith. Huey Long called him a better rabble-rouser than himself, a tribute which pleased Gerald Smith as much as H. L. Mencken's appraisal of him as the "champion boob-thumper of all epochs...
...Wayland ("Curly") Brooks is an oldtime rabble-rouser, a flag-waving Billy Sunday orator who can jerk tears from any group of mothers with a recital of his own World War I experiences (wounded seven times, bemedaled thrice). He is the candidate of the Chicago Tribune's Roosevelt-hating publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick. The lank Colonel had tried vainly to get Brooks elected to high office for years, finally got him by when the State went Republican in 1940. Frizzle-haired, heavy-set Curly Brooks, like his sponsor, was one of the most violent of Isolationists before...
Garden Logic. Murray is no wild-eyed rabble-rouser. He is a solemn, quietly dressed man who has his own garden variety of logic. He has put his spade into technological unemployment in steel; with a wry face has turned over many a fact: that, for instance, however effective they have been in lowering price, continuous automatic strip mills are, according to Murray's reckoning, displacing more than 84,700 workers. Says Murray: "I will not be sidetracked ... by engaging in any debate on whether these workers will or will not find other jobs five, ten or twenty years...