Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forecast, he was busily bestowing brass rings. The recipients: selected members of the working press. One was the San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Raudebaugh, who, said Columnist Allen, wrote a "vivid and dynamic chapter ... in Our Fair City [Editor: Robert S. Allen], best-selling study on municipal rule in the U.S. . . ." Another was Richard S. Davis, who wrote the chapter on Milwaukee. Three were Scripps-Howard Washington correspondents: Marshall McNeil, Daniel Kidney and Ruth Finney (Mrs. Robert S. Allen). "They know more about operation of the Government than most of its so-called operators," Allen confided. "Also about lobbyists...
...Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent the return of gangster rule in this city." Capone's mob might or might not be coming back, but there was no doubt that an able mob of Hearstlings had moved in on the Her old-American...
Small politics usually make small novels, and The Lightwood Tree is no exception to the rule. Yet from the politics of his home town, Berry Fleming of Augusta, Ga. has succeeded in distilling enough of the historical essence of U.S. freedom and civil liberties to give The Lightwood Tree a realistic urgency rare among Southern novels outside the field of the race problem. The explanation is easy: large, balding Berry Fleming is a successful political operator himself. He was the intellectual sparkplug of a daring and determined revolution in Augusta...
...years this cozy little city has been notorious for the ruthless rule of the Cracker Party, an ignorant, illiterate conglomeration of mill hands, job holders, liquor dealers, and small businessmen. Boss Hague never ran a tighter system. Convicts and city materials went into private jobs; plain citizens were jugged for protesting. When Fleming, disgusted with the local scene, opened up on the Crackers, even his friends told him he was crazy to stick his neck out. He wrote, he spoke, he agitated, he became a zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month...
...never before and are ready, at the slightest suggestion, to acknowledge that need. But the church we need will have more of Dante and Dostoevsky in its message and less of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Eddie Guest; more of the Last Judgment and less of the Golden Rule. It will not only have a Living God, but a Live Devil. Its Heaven will have a Hell for its alternative. Its objective-so far as I'm concerned-will not be my cultivation, but my rebirth. I might fail that kind of church. But that kind of church could...