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...Scholar, Simpleton & Inflation...
Colyumist Broun cried: "Oh, I must have got it from him! ... I couldn't remember." At White Plains, N. Y. James Edward ("Andy") Gump, 24, asked and was granted a court order changing his surname to Gale because, said he, the name "Gump" had a dictionary meaning of "simpleton," had been "widely advertised by cartoonists" as that of "a funny-faced comedian," and that by bearing it he had "gradually developed an inferiority complex." Next day "Andy" Gale's father appeared before the judge to ask the order be voided. He said his son's wife...
...Even a simpleton would know from this that Philosopher Dewey has been driven by his concept of philosophy to become an educator. He is one of the greatest. His small volume School and Society (1899) caused world wide repercussions among pedants, pedagogs & preceptors. His lectures at Peking, while he held an exchange professorship there in 1919-20, wrought profoundest effects upon Chinese students ?and in China it was the "student move-ment" which produced the present Nationalist Government (see CHINA) now exerting authority over two-thirds of Cathay...
...hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice Hely Hutchinson (writing for the Century) all attacked my famed criticisms of corporations. They agreed with me that many holders of common stocks are ignorant, lazy, simple. The Government should look after the investing simpleton, I have written. These three men say he should look after himself...
...Since no simpleton could fail to see that all these extraordinary contentions proceeded from the self-interest or fear which advanced them, the adjournment of the Committee, in midweek, without deciding the nature of even "peacetime armaments" came as no surprise...