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...gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass tack. E. Austin Benner...
...rejection of Muscovite nostrums by the ex-soldiery of Italy was followed by a similar movement in Germany, and hasty prognosticators saw the Ku Klux Klan as a symbol of an American stand against foreigners and foreign doctrines. It has been impossible to discover the person who applied the tack to the over-inflated balloon of bourgeois self-righteousness, but it evidently has been applied: perhaps the sturdy citizen himself was not among the last to grasp the ridiculous exaggeration of his pose as the single-minded defeader of national ideals...
...Davis hammered on the corruption issue, calling for a change of administration, denouncing the "robber" tariff, of the Republicans. In regard to Senator LaFollette, he took the tack opposite to the Coolidge group, and belittled the third ticket. He aimed at President Coolidge; and President Coolidge sat as immobile as a sphinx, repeating with the persistency of Poe's raven: "Economy and more economy...
...Government's special counsel for investigating and prosecuting the oil scandals has apparently hit upon an entirely new tack. Behind closed portals in Washington, a Special Grand Jury was called to hear 16 witnesses, subpoenaed duces tecum (bring your books and papers). All that transpired was that the proceedings had nothing to do with the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases. The witnesses were an entirely different group from that which was examined by the Senatorial Committees (TIME, May 12 et seq.). The new investigation is supposed to have something to do with the Mexia oil field in Texas...
Again, he departed on another tack...