At a dinner in Manhattan to celebrate William Randolph Hearst Jr.'s engagement, a memorable moment came when grey-haired Cartoonist Nelson Harding of the Hearstian Evening Journal began the "Gettysboig" Address as his good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith would have begun it: "Fahscore 'n' seven yeeuhs ago, are farthers brort forth on this cont'nent a noo nation, c'nceived in liberdy 'n' dedicated to the prop'sition that oil men're creaded equal. . . ."
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