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Supporters of the law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Constitution were led by Reps. Sawyer and McCready. They were abetted by Rep. Wenzler of Boston, often called "the clown of the legislature," who roared: "Some of these professors when they get to 65 or 70--their brains are cracked." Wenzler himself is almost...
Compared with the tough kids of contemporary fiction, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were cherubs. But the contrast is more apparent than real; portrayed with James Farrell's pimpled candor, Huck Finn would undoubtedly be just as taboo for adolescent libraries as Studs Lonigan. Well aware of this fact are grownups who grew up in Midwest small towns. But few of them have admitted as much in print...
...Mclntire, to rear admiral and surgeon general. Many another President has eased White House naval, military and medical aides upstairs to high berths, often to the disgust of their ranking officers. Woodrow Wilson thus made Lieutenant Commander Gary Travers Grayson a rear admiral; Warren Harding created bumbling old Charles Sawyer a brigadier general, U. S. Army medical reserve. In upping his friend and doctor last week, Franklin Roosevelt promoted an able, modest eye-ear-nose-&-throat man. Far from loafing in his White House nook, Dr. Mclntire has worked daily at the Naval Hospital in Washington, lectured regularly...
...tried do draw him out on the campaigns. "In a Berry big speech a candidates began, "The question is Tobey or not Tobin'. One of the audience shouted back, 'Lemke out of here. Van Nuys is as bad as another.' The speaker yelled, "I Sawyer first and if you don't Pepper up I'll Clark you on the Crump...
...show that Boston should have had is being held elsewhere." Initiator of the exhibition was urbane and eminent Critic Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England). An old friend of the Prendergasts, Mr. Brooks not only suggested the show to the Addison Gallery's Curator Charles H. Sawyer but contributed to the catalogue an article, Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast, that shone gemlike from its pages. Its simplicity was fitting because Maurice Prendergast was a simple man. While working in a Boston dry goods store as a boy, he made his first sketches of women's dresses that...