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...Republicans who had left Chicago a week and a half before. Said he: "For almost a week, pompous phrases marched over this landscape in search of an idea, and the only idea they found was that the two great decades of progress [under the Democratic Party] were the misbegotten spawn of bungling, corruption, socialism, mismanagement, waste and worse. They captured, tied and dragged that ragged idea in here and furiously beat it to death . . . But we Democrats were not the only victims here. First [the Republicans] slaughtered each other and then they went after us. And the same vocabulary...
...Civil War tax was collected from about 250,000 people in a population of 39 million. The tax, which had been voted for a limited period, was dropped in 1872. After the Civil War, U.S. capitalism began to spawn millionaires, and millionaires begot mass envy and a burning sense of social injustice. The eyes of Southerners and Westerners saw hundreds of cigar-smoking millionaires swarming like cuttlefish around New York and Newport harbors. This contrast tells the story: in 1843, there were only 20 millionaires in the whole U.S. In 1909, the 92 members of the U.S. Senate included...
...profane bystanders, it seemed rather like St. George welcoming the Dragon's spawn, or offering to exorcise them with coals of fire. By last week, 22 cadets had applied-at a possible cost to Mr. X of more than $30,000 a year. Meanwhile, other campuses were hinting that they too might consider the cadets. Among them: Michigan State College ("They're still all wonderful fellows in my book," said Coach Biggie Munn), the University of Colorado, Pennsylvania State College, West Virginia University, and the University of Miami, where eight cadets have already applied...
...Diomede and the Russian island called Big Diomede lies 2% miles of Bering Strait and the International Dateline. From big, weather-worn Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the 61-year-old "Glacier Priest" whose Alaskan explorations are known around the world, came a postcard last week to Alaska Authoress Barrett (Spawn of the North) Willoughby. From his mission on Little Diomede (pop. 130), Father Hubbard wrote...
Plutonius: "Geigers, beware, for Fission and ourselves will wed our forces to spawn a new and fiercer breed of demons...