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...Hoover New York Journal (Hearst) defended Nominee Smith from the "Socialist" charge. Hearst Cartoonist T. E. Powers drew a cartoon called "Wall Street Socialists." An elephant with whiskers and a silk hat scowled at a brown-derbied donkey and said: "You're a Socialist!" The donkey retorted: "Me, a Socialist? Oh! Charlie, won't you loan me your whiskers...
...week, and contrasted it with an advertisement published in Boston by the G. O. P. The advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides and placed the whole nation in the silk-stocking class." Said Nominee Smith: "Now, just draw on your imagination for a moment and see if you can in your mind's eye picture a man at $17.30 a week going out to a chicken dinner in his own automobile, with silk socks...
Apropos of the little Irish ditty "The pig in the parlor;" has Alvin G. Anderson heard that little one "you can't make a silk purse...
...money as "the root of all evil" (a line in the play). This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception...
Married. Martha Skinner of South Hadley, Mass., granddaughter of the late silk tycoon William Skinner; and Dr. Victor Wesley Logan of Manhattan; in Holyoke, Mass...