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...Brower declared that a lack of "greatness" is holding up national progress. He told his competitors: "Advertising in a climate of greatness will work harder. Fewer people will be annoyed by advertising . . . It will cease to be the whipping boy for every uninformed meathead and misinformed egghead and unsuccessful sorehead...
...Sorehead. In Toledo, arrested for bopping a bar companion with a beer bottle and lifting $65 from him, John H. Foraker told the judge: "I didn't need the money; I was just mad at the world...
What annoys him most appears to be what he calls my "almost moronic cheerfulness." This seems to me a classic phrase and I will do what I can to immortalize it. All my long writing life I have been called a killjoy, a sorehead, a Jeremiah, a muckraker, a common scold, a public nuisance-all the names you could think of; and now, having achieved serenity in my 60's, I am "almost moronic." Let me point out to your reviewer that the case is not entirely unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil...
...stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions by holding that the system...
...Republican Progressives? Without them his sweep would have been the same. Such far-flung support would give him. if he chose to take it. extraordinary independence of action. He had a Congress overwhelmingly friendly in which to work his will. He started with a clean record, free from "sorehead" enemies in his own party or organized opposition from the Republicans. The country seemed ready and waiting for him to lead. Never before were the possibilities better for a Democratic Administration to get things done. The result seemed to depend upon the brand of statesmanship to be furnished...