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Herbert Y. Edgeways
Joe Elphrey is a Communist Party activist who, ironically enough, is also a millionaire economist and the son of a prominent banker. He goes by the pseudonym “Mr. Cailey,” and he eventually gets kicked out of the Party for collaborating with non-Communists to fight the Windrip dictatorship. Sinclair Lewis uses Elphrey to mock the Communist Party’s elitism and extreme orthodoxy.
Joe Elphrey Quotes in It Can’t Happen Here
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Chapter 37
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But as for Doremus, he leaned back not vastly caring what nonsense the others might talk so long as it was permitted them to talk at all without finding that the waiters were M.M. spies; and content to know that, whatever happened, Trowbridge and the other authentic leaders would never go back to satisfaction in government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits. He thought comfortably of the fact that just yesterday (he had this from the chairman’s secretary), Walt Trowbridge had dismissed Wilson J. Shale, the ducal oil man, who had come, apparently with sincerity, to offer his fortune and his executive experience to Trowbridge and the cause.
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Joe Elphrey Quotes in It Can’t Happen Here
The It Can’t Happen Here quotes below are all either spoken by Joe Elphrey or refer to Joe Elphrey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 37
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But as for Doremus, he leaned back not vastly caring what nonsense the others might talk so long as it was permitted them to talk at all without finding that the waiters were M.M. spies; and content to know that, whatever happened, Trowbridge and the other authentic leaders would never go back to satisfaction in government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits. He thought comfortably of the fact that just yesterday (he had this from the chairman’s secretary), Walt Trowbridge had dismissed Wilson J. Shale, the ducal oil man, who had come, apparently with sincerity, to offer his fortune and his executive experience to Trowbridge and the cause.
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