By David Dayton McKean
His public statements are dressed up for him, but the man
is revealed in the style. He has picked up a number of polysyllabic
words which he uses very frequently and often inaccurately,such as `irresponsible,' `scurrilous,' `propaganda.'
The phrase `my friends' is used ad nauseam. His sentences,
when uncorrected, often get nowhere; and he has complained
that reporters have misquoted him when they were only
trying, as Heywood Broun said, to temper the wind to the
ungrammatical lamb. But when the text of one of his
speeches is released before delivery, though it bears unmistakable
evidence of having been rendered into English, there
is a peculiar meandering quality about his sentences that
distinguishes his own work. For example: `There is no question in my mind of the interest which the people of this city
have in the proposed racing amendment, because of this
treat outpouring of people which demonstrates clearly to
me that the people are overwhelmingly in favor of adopting
this amendment and that they believe as I believe, that an
opportunity such as this should not be permitted to pass
without taking advantage of it.' (Speech in Journal Square, Jersey City, June 9, 1939.) Or in a public statement:
`A few irresponsible people are trying to take advantage of
the unfortunate closing of the New Jersey Title Guarantee
and Trust Company in this city, for personal political reasons,
by blaming the city administration and the tax situation,
which is no different in Jersey City than in any other
large city in the state of New Jersey, and which did not, as a
matter of fact, have any bearing whatsoever on the closing of this institution.' (Statement of February 18, 1939. Punctuation as in the original.)
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