Sunday, March 06, 2011

But It'll Never Match "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion"

Harvard Business School, it is often said, is dominated by the “three Ms” (McKinsey, the military and Mormons).
Link.  Surely there are other "political triplets," though I can't think of any at the moment."


[Martin, Barton and Fish?  Constitution, Institution and Prosperity?  Not quite the same thing, I know.]

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

many years ago james simpson, prominent head of a major birmingham law firm, said, "nobody is for (senator) john sparkman except niggers and jews and the birmingham news."

Anonymous said...

i had thought for many years that joe mccarthy had started the business of saying the "democrat" party instead of the "Democratic" party, upon advice of a pr man. the pr man said "democratic" sounds good, not "democrat." but, not too long ago, i read or heard that it actually originated with joe martin, of martin, barton and fish fame.

Buce said...

I'm beginning to realize that a lot of these threesomes are just unprintable. Or should be.

Was it true of Sparkman?

Ken Houghton said...

What about "Life, liberty, and property"? (Or the rewritten version.)

Buce said...

Well, sure. More euphonious than "the pursuit of happiness." But if we must shift to dignified oratory--

Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor.

Dedicate, concentrate, hallow.

Of, by and for....

etc. etc. etc.

dilbert dogbert said...

This doesn't have a "ring" to it but here goes: Your Life, Your Wife or Your Property is Safe When Congress is in Session.

Anonymous said...

john sparkman won -- democratic designation then was sure ticket to victory -- primaries were the real elections. other democratic senator lister hill had to have his last election stolen for him -- the voting rights reaction was taking serious effect in alabama do lister's totals were "enhanced" in selected counties and he "won." sparkman was not a statesman -- once when talk was alabama's heavily black counties could be abolished by the legislature, split into other counties where possible so there would be white majorities, sparkman said the legislature has the right to set county borders.

Anonymous said...

Rum, sodomy and the lash.