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frames- By the end of this year , 63-year-old Chairman Silas Cathcart -- [ARG1 the former chairman of Illinois Tool Works] who *T*-2 was [rel derided] *-1 as [ARG2-as a `` tool-and-die man ''] [ARGM-TMP when GE brought him in *-4 to clean up Kidder in 1987 *T*-3] -- retires to his Lake Forest , Ill. , home , possibly *-6 to build a shopping mall on some land 0 he owns *T*-5 .
- The result was a world-famous trial exposing profound cultural conflicts in American life between the `` smart set , '' whose spokesman *T*-1 was H.L. Mencken , and [ARG1 the religious fundamentalists] , whom [ARG0 Mencken] [rel derided] *T*-2 as [ARG2-as benighted primitives] .