Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith the New Deal was a Strange Deal, full of Socialism, Radicalism, Communism. In Washington he stood up before the du Fonts and the Raskobs not to speak to them but to his party. He spoke not as the statesman of eight years ago but as the New Yorker of 30 years ago in the solecisms of the Lower East Side. Not once did he mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt, but every long word that he twisted his raucous tongue around, every point that he drove home with platitudinous common sense, every uproarious poke at the New Deal invited...
...Politics!" To secure unanimous consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this departure from our former dignified practice? Does anyone maintain there is any special emergency whereby we should change the rules and precedents that have stood since the beginning of this Government? Is there going to be anything...
When there are momentarily no women in the smoking room, men hasten to ease themselves of what they feel are appropriate stories. No reputable modern publisher has yet had the nerve to sponsor a really bawdy anthology, but with the weekly encouragement of such smartcharts as the New Yorker, such pseudo-smart-charts as Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine...
...editors have secured an imposing list of talent to enrich their little brain child. There are bawdy cartoons by the leading New Yorker and Esquire artists, articles by Philip Wylie, Rex Stout, and poems by William Rose Benet, Leonard Bacon and Ogden Nash; and one act plays by Hervey Allen and Marc Connelly. The subject matter runs the gamut of the privy and bedroom school of expression...
Freshmen prefer the Reader's Digest, while Ballyhoo ranks high with them. Time and the New Yorker rank first and second among those magazines delivered by mail...