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...Four lobbies mainly represent the well-to-do big commercial farmers, the top 10% who sell 50% of all U.S. farm products on the markets. As always, they utterly dominate the men Columnist Ray Clapper called "their slaves...
Last week the conservative New York Sun splashed these words across its front page. They were part of a dispatch from the Sun's roving Correspondent-Columnist Ward Morehouse, who attributed them to Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle, commander of the A.E.F. in northern Ireland. They were remarkable words because, on their faces, they were the nearest thing yet to a direct statement on the Second Front issue from a responsible U.S. military figure. Noteworthy also was the fact that the dispatch had been passed by the U.S. Army censorship. According to Reuters (British) News Service, "Scrappy" Hartle...
...monickered Hearst Sports Columnist Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum, 47, will handle pre-game color and post-game roundups. Bill, who talks in a deep Missouri drawl, sticks strictly to sport lingo. A discovery of famed Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane, he is well versed in dishing up color, and his syndicated daily sport column is a stand-by to U.S. fans...
...Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
...last Franklin Roosevelt saved his quip of the day, the question of John J. Bennett's nomination in New York. The Chief picked up a newspaper, read therefrom Columnist Mark Sullivan's remarks about a press conference with Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson: "Mr. Patterson said merely that he had no worthwhile comment. If Mr. Patterson has no copyright on those four short words, 'no worth-while comment,' they could be advantageously used by some other Washington officials who face press conferences...