Word: satirist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week in a mock petition-to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito-which was circulated in New York...
Probable reason was given by Ace Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News. Wrote Satirist Dixon: "Phantom-like men in white have been responding by day and night to mysterious signaling from a secluded Westchester mansion-now disclosed as the secret quarters of Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick. . . . Invariably they carry carefully wrapped packages. . . . They salute with all the precision of storm troopers, deliver the packages, salute again-and silently depart. . . . Super-sleuthing finally solved the mystery just before last midnight. Jerome Glasser, treasurer of a large corporation, revealed that ... his company has been doing business with the Nazi...
...political satirist and pamphleteer, Schoolmaster Dove had original ideas about running a school. When a pupil played truant, Schoolmaster Dove sent a committee to his house. The committee went through the streets carrying lighted lanterns, loudly calling the boy's name - "a sad exposure for the juvenile culprit," said a chronicler. Said one of Dove's former pupils, Judge Richard Peters: "He was a sarcastic and ill-tempered doggerelizer, who was but ironically Dove. . . ." One of his fellow tutors was Charles Thomson, later secretary of the First Continental Congress. Lodging with Schoolmaster Dove and his wife, Tutor Thomson...
...Communists of Gitlow's memoirs are in dead earnest about the "proletarian revolution"; their activities frequently have serious consequences for their followers and U. S. labor. But they figure nevertheless in scene after scene of political opera bouffe which even the most gifted satirist would be proud to have invented. Typical scenes...