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Omitted from their roster by his own desire-although it was announced that the committee would consult him-was aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who set up and headed the 1918 War Industries Board. Mr. Baruch's friend and Wartime coworker, Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, who months ago was ruled out of rearmament councils, called this "bumptious folly." Omitted from the official announcement was any explanation of the speed with which Mr. Stettinius, et al. were picked. Plans for allocating U. S. production could be almost as useful to warring friends of the U. S. as to warring...
Sunday before last, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, speaking as a guest at the weekly unrehearsed Round Table discussion of the University of Chicago over the 58 stations of the NBC Red Network, remarked that proponents of Herbert Hoover were already active in Louisiana and Mississippi "buying up" delegates to the 1940 Republican National Convention...
...Hoover indignantly yelped at this "vicious personal slander and libel in which there is not the remotest possible truth," demanded an apology in the next Round Table broadcast. In Washington, Columnist Pearson stuck by his pea-shooters, remarked: "No intelligent person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work...
This disclaimer may have satisfied Mr. Hoover, but it irked Columnist Pearson considerably to be thus roundly denied. Next day his attorney, Ernest Cuneo, wired Vice President Woodward, curtly labeling the denial "a statement . . . viciously attacking the professional integrity of my client," and winding up: "Unless proper apologies are made to Mr. Pearson, immediate legal proceedings will be instituted...
Hyde Park. Blurb of the week was written by Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated column, My Day. Blurbled she: "I read a book last night until 2:30 a. m. That doesn't happen very often to me. . . ." Sleep-murdering novel: Again the River (still in galley proofs), a story of floods and the people who fight them or get drowned in them. Author: Stella E. Morgan, a West Virginia housewife. Again the River is her first novel...