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Sharpest tomahawk to be flipped in Mr. Ickes' direction came from Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who devoted three columns to Mr. Ickes and what Pegler called the "Social-Democratic party." Quick to claim his scalp, Columnist Pegler whooped : "In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Harold Ickes is my guy." The Pegler war dance: ". . . Mr. Ickes is so cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted...
...strong people; to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came out for Willkie for President. Columnist Ray Clapper asserted that people were filled with pain and disappointment at the bad delivery, judged Willkie "by the Roosevelt standard of radio crooning," but changed their minds if they read the speech. "Not many major political utterances in modern times have rung with such courage as this Willkie acceptance speech...
Embarrassed by some of the memberships of his A. F. of L., Mr. Green has been busy defending his policies and himself, chiefly from superheated Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who has kept Mr. Green hopping like corn in a popper. Up for trial last week on a charge of snitching $60,000 from his organization of charwomen, chambermaids, was swarthy George Scalise, ex-president of the A. F. of L. Building Service Employes International Union...
...asked and given in 1914, when Hoover's committee fed nearly 7,500,000 Belgians; for the most part Germany stuck to her word.) Mr. Hoover planned a U. S. commission to check up on the fulfillment of Nazi promises. What he was proposing in fact, as Columnist Walter Lippmann pointed out, was an internal blockade of Germany, in "a vast territory occupied by German armies." Other promises Mr. Hoover hoped to exact from Nazi Germany were a return to the conquered nations of the equivalent of the food Germany had already seized from them, and permission...
...plan frustrated by the machinations of a lace-collared fifth columnist, Lord Wolfingham.* (Henry Daniell), Captain Thorpe is clapped into a Spanish galley. There he endures lashings so realistic that a lady tourist in the Warner studio who saw them being administered to Cinemactor Flynn fainted dead away. Just as the captain is about done in, he hears the greatest news in English history, is inspired to take over the ship, race to England, thrust and parry his way through the palace and Lord Wolfingham to warn his Queen in time that the Armada...