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...Point. He is also a devout Catholic and vigorous American. Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked at him. That was a mistake. Two-hundred-and-twenty-five-pound Harry Dalton caught the speaker...
...funds from New Deal business victims with a campaign handbook racket. . . ." Getting worked up to his war dance, Senator Bridges ululated: "Who is this Ickes who talks so big-at a safe distance-about Hitler? In his own right Ickes is a Hitler in short pants. . . . A professional rabble rouser. . . . A political hatchet man. . . . Like Hitler, he is a common scold puffed up by high office. . . . Who is Ickes to make faces at Hitler? Doesn't he own a mirror...
...German press whipped itself up to find extravagant titles, came through with "Lord of Battle," "Victor of 1940 and Victor over 1918," "Rouser out of Stupor," "Leader from Darkness into Light," "Triumphator...
...whistled and wept at the historical sequences, Northerners might not. There had been protests from daughters of G. A. R. veterans. But David Selznick was not worried. The advantage of film ing two great legends in one picture was that he had two great pictures - a sure fire Rebel-rouser for the South, a sure fire love story for the rest of the country...
...British middle classes had one in William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) and today the U. S. is offered another by Walter Boughton Pitkin, 62, Columbia University publicist who discovered seven years ago that "life begins at 40." Last year prodigious Professor Pitkin explained "why we need a rabble rouser of the right" (TIME, Sept. 19). Last week he tried rousing Elyria, Ohio and so many people (over 600) went to hear him that he called for a League of the Middle Class...