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...Baiter, commentator on The Inside of Sports, which plugs Phillies cigars over an MBS network, has standing instructions to address himself to an audience of truck drivers making $18 a week. He follows those instructions almost to the letter, describes his technique as being of the "Aw-nuts rather than the Gee-whiz school of sportswriting." In an excited baritone, he calls a bum a bum, takes frequent pot shots at athletic bigwigs, squeezes the last drop of melodrama out of horse racing, ball games, fights, wrestling bouts. His only concessions to the carriage trade are seasonal references to tennis...
Pierre Cot, and with them that long outspoken foe of fascism, Mile. Eve Curie. On another refugee ship went Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, longtime No. 1 Paris journalistic Hitler-baiter...
Fascist Party members were warned not to be seen in public reading the Vatican paper. Fascist editors, led by Roberto Farinacci, onetime Party secretary and Italy's No. 1 Jew-baiter, bitterly attacked the Vatican press. Cried Farinacci in his Cremona Regime Fasdsta: "Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again...
...effort to calm the crowd, which was growing sullen with cries of "Down With Sullivan" and "Make Sullivan Speak," George Robert Stange '42 delivered an address explaining the delay. Branding Sullivan a "publicity seeker" and a "red-baiter," Stange stated that some unidentified person had called Sullivan the night before to reveal that a Leftist play was being put on at Harvard...
...hearing of a Judiciary sub-committee when hefty Negro Communist Benjamin J. Davis Jr., a graduate of Harvard Law School, delivered a 15-minute tirade against the opponents of the Anti-Lynching Bill. Vice President Garner, said he, paraphrasing a familiar refrain, was an "evil old labor baiter." "Shameful" were the tactics of Committee Member Senator Tom Connally (Dem. Tex.). While Davis bellowed, the apopletic committee glared, jumped up & down, threatened to throw the witness out. Said Senator Van Nuys (Dem. Ind.), co-author of the bill: "You have done more harm than good. You may be excused...