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...week was a thumping, banging hullabaloo that set their feet atwitch, their elbows aquiver. Crouching like a witch doctor over a clattery battery of traps, perspiring, floppy-haired Gene Krupa beat out African war dances and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie bumps. Between beats Mr. Krupa, a scholarly thumper as well as one of the world's best drummers, explained which was which. The Museum had asked him to drum up its educational program. And he banged out a reply to Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who lately pronounced Manhattan museums "stuffy" and unattractive to the young...
Like Hearst, Rothermere collected objects of art and stored them away. Like Hearst he was a patriotic tub-thumper, a violent Red-baiter. He lived like a maharaja, traveled with an entourage of editors, friends, servants, women. He was lavish with money, but was never the resourceful editor Northcliffe had been...
Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour...
...theories of agricultural legislation and together they fought for the McNary-Haugen bill. When Mr. Peek, disgusted with the G. O. P.'s nomination of Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned Democrat, Chester Davis beamed. He was already vice chairman of the Smith Independent Organizations Committee, chief thumper for the Brown Derby among dirt farmers. After the Hoover landslide they cooled their enthusiasm by starting a company to make things out of cornstalks. Unlike George Peek, Administrator Davis is thoroughly in sympathy with the A.A.A.'s production control program, is .acceptable to Socialistic Professor Rex Tugwell...
...after knowing it firsthand. But the most modern and thorough| going sinners are organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative Lou Hill's career was strong-arming on a Chicago newspaper route with the late Dion...