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Fortunately, there are signs that they cannot. "Of Thee I Sing" has effectively satirized, in Wintergreen's plank of Love, the attempt to convince by appeal to the emotions with neglect of the discriminating intelligence. The Consumer's Research Bulletin is finding wide approval. Mr. Batten has done a service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult...
...Morris Ryskind, co-author with George Kaufman of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize play "Of Thee I Sing," goes the credit for having dug up "The Diary of an Ex-President" which Minton, Balch & Company recently released. It is the private diary of former President John P. Wintergreen and was discovered by Mr. Ryskind in the new subway on Eighth Avenue. Mr. Wintergreen will be remembered as the President who was elected on a Platform of Love in "Of Thee I Sing...
Public interest, already awakened by the staging of President Wintergreen's political activities in the Pulitzer Prize-winning success, Of Thee I Sing, will be further aroused by the publication of the ex-President's Diary. Edited by Author Morrie Ryskind, collaborator with George S. Kaufman in the play, it is the product of that scholar's diligent research: only after six months' digging (in the new subway on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue) did he finally succeed in unearthing it. It covers roughly the first four months of ex-President Wintergreen's administration. In its confidential pages the ex-President...
...Awoke this morning, fully clothed" is the keynote struck early in his diary's pages by Mr. Wintergreen, whose inauguration marked what newspapers called "the beginning of a new era in Prohibition." During the daytime the ills of office and the Ways & Means Committee had a sobering effect. But at nights he forgot his troubles with the British Ambassador, assisted by whiskeys' & soda (bicarbonate). Administration affairs were just beginning to straighten out when Jim Doolittle, the President's brother-in-law, who married his sister Tess under compulsion, was arrested for 'legging in Montana. That scandal was the prelude...
...That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty by America and ... I'd be damned if I'd do it again...