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There are many other scenes from Mencken's long journalistic career, including a Cuban revolutionary bit which is a thumbnail classic on Latin American politics. Mencken has heard all the great U.S. exhorters, from William Jennings Bryan on, and it is his considered opinion that none was "worthy of being put in the same species, or even in the same genus, as Gerald L. K. Smith ... a boob-bumper worth going miles to see and hear." Mencken heard Smith speak on the same platform with Father Coughlin and win hands down, despite his opponent's "habit of enforcing...
Sweet Sorrow. In Kansas City, 72-year-old Edward Dixon, who had spent his life running the family grocery with Brother William, offered a thumbnail U.S. history: "Father survived the Civil War, my family carried the business through the Spanish-American War, and Will and I took the last war in stride and even drubbed the depression. But every time we turn around now there's a new form to fill out." So they folded up shop...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...
Thus last week did President Roosevelt thumbnail the biggest industrial job ever tackled by the U.S. The "defense program" was over, to be replaced by full war production. It meant that the U.S. economy was to be turned on its ear. That vast, delicate, intermeshed mechanism has been producing about 15% war goods, 85% peacetime goods. To reach the President's goal, it will have to be put on a 50% war-50% peace basis...
...many a Guardsman called to service on the premise that the U.S. needed an Army in a world filled with aggression has now no sense of imminent national danger. (At a Mississippi camp last week uniformed men booed newsreel shots of Franklin Roosevelt and General George Marshall, cheered a thumbnail speech by Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson...