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...Dealing Senators Claude Pepper and Lister Hill promptly rose to reply. Their potshots had little effect. But meanwhile Senator Taft got involved in a terrible spat with Columnist Lippmann who is often pro-administration...
Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
Whether Mrs. Roosevelt meant more than she said or said more than she meant was not quite clear to anyone but the New York Daily News's mischief-mongering Columnist John O'Donnell, whose apparent mission in life is to make anti-Roosevelt mountains out of any molehill he can stumble on. With characteristically unpleasant glee he commented: "For the first time in the history of the Republic, the First Lady . . . has proclaimed publicly from the Executive Mansion that she favors birth control-at least for the lower classes. . . . A White House smash punch directed at the Catholic...
...often, Columnist O'Donnell was in for a disappointment. By week's end, few Catholic newspapers had risen to the bait. In Washington, the Rev. Dr. Edgar Schmiedeler, a Catholic welfare official, promptly issued a widely-syndicated press statement: "I think some of Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks are tantamount-unwittingly so, of course-to a decided disservice to the country. . . ." In Boston, the usually aggressive Pilot was quite calm: "Read carefully, read very carefully, Mrs. Roosevelt's statement might pass muster. Possibly it's correct that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather...
...Columnist O'Donnell would have to try again...