Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser.
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In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here", the author presents a vivid portrayal of the working-class inhabitants of Manhattan. He describes them as hardworking and compassionate individuals who show generosity towards the elderly. These qualities highlight their deep sense of community and concern for one another, particularly in times of economic uncertainty.

Lewis also emphasizes the anxiety that comes with job insecurity, illuminating how these fears can make them susceptible to manipulation by demagogues. The mention of them as "facile material for any rabble-rouser" suggests that their vulnerability to charismatic leaders could lead to societal upheaval or misguided movements. This commentary serves as a warning about the potential consequences of mass discontent and the exploitation of the populace.

In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here", the author presents a vivid portrayal of the working-class inhabitants of Manhattan. He describes them as hardworking and compassionate individuals who show generosity towards the elderly. These qualities highlight their deep sense of community and concern for one another, particularly in times of economic uncertainty.

Lewis also emphasizes the anxiety that comes with job insecurity, illuminating how these fears can make them susceptible to manipulation by demagogues. The mention of them as "facile material for any rabble-rouser" suggests that their vulnerability to charismatic leaders could lead to societal upheaval or misguided movements. This commentary serves as a warning about the potential consequences of mass discontent and the exploitation of the populace.

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Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient.
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Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient.
The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a
Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here
The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a
It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by "buying his own time on the air"- it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford's early conception of selling cars cheap to millions of people, instead of selling a few as luxuries.
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It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by "buying his own time on the air"- it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford's early conception of selling cars cheap to millions of people, instead of selling a few as luxuries.
Democracy-here and in Britain and France, it hasn't been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russia-even if it has produced industrialists like you, Frank, and bankers like you, R. C., and given you altogether too much power and money. On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy's given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Democracy-here and in Britain and France, it hasn't been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russia-even if it has produced industrialists like you, Frank, and bankers like you, R. C., and given you altogether too much power and money. On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy's given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.
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Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.
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