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...straightforward discussion of these topics will involve the making of a few honest statements that are bound to prick a few of the self-righteous and certain to upset these in authority. Dr. Ruthven hardly can be much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases...
...most damnably outrageous thing I've read in a long time," said Governor Roosevelt. "I can express righteous indignation, but that won't help catch them." The American Legion offered to mobilize 30,000 vigilantes against gangdom. Mayor Walker announced a fresh drive against the city's criminals, felt confident that Police Commissioner Mulrooney would apprehend the murderers. "If anything can arouse Americans . . ." scoffed an editorial in the London Daily Express. "How much more evidence," Congressman Andrew Lawrence Somers wired President Hoover, "is necessary to convince us of the merits of this [Prohibition...
...inebriates' home" hot David apparently meant the Conservative Party, though Sir John Simon had not taken that step last week. But what if Lloyd George should die? Would it mean the breakup of Liberalism? Would self-righteous Sir John lead the remaining Liberals to the inebriates' home too? Would it mean the end of the Labor Government...
...coming of the portentous work, heralded and omened by illegitimate night lights and uncouth noises from Mt. Auburn Street, and by righteous uneasiness among Harvard professors, presents contemporary and past Harvard men with an opportunity to enjoy themselves. For the authors have held the mirror up to nature (albeit a slightly imperfect mirror) and the defects of Cambridge scholars--dignity, austerity, knowledge, etc.--come through the refining process of distortion until they are seen in their true light. Fifty pages of wit and caricature at three cents per page...
...into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles exposing the corrupt politics of Philadelphia, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Pittsburgh. From firsthand, expert knowledge of political crooks Steffens gradually came to like them, began to despair of righteous people, to disbelieve in the value of reform. Some (but they would be illadvised) might take him for a cynic. In his estimates of the history he shared he is realistic; only in his prophecy does he tinge his phrase with a shade of bitterness. ''My prophecy, from...