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...Charles Lindbergh's ambiguous call for "new policies and a new leadership," caustic Columnist WestbrookPegler wrote: "We can't adopt new policies without a change of leadership and ... we can't repudiate the elected leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . without repudiating the people, and I should like to know how Lindbergh purposes to go about that...
Will Hays lay ill of overwork in a Chicago hospital, where it turned out he had been for more than seven weeks. Assistant Joe Breen went to his bedside, Columnist Louella Parsons rumored his retirement. ∙∙ Gloria Swanson finished a picture she hoped meant a comeback. ∙∙ Oldtime Comedian Raymond Hatton got a new part, had the same hope. ∙∙Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with...
...sign a contract with John L. Lewis' miners; the chief reason was to prevent Lewis from becoming "dictator of this country," and they asked the public to help by writing Washington. Whatever Lewis' ambitions, there was little in the Southerners' citations to support their charge. Wrote Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after reading the ad: "There ought to be something like the SEC to protect ... the public against consciously fraudulent or misleading statements . . . that demand political action on the part of the public...
Greatly gratified was Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whose furious finger-pointing had resulted in Bioff's jailing on the old pandering charge, and whose attacks had blown open another A.F. of L. union, the Building Service Employes. Ex-president of that union, George Scalise, is in Sing Sing for stealing members' dues, still has a sentence for income-tax evasion hanging heavy over his head. James J. Bambrick, ex-head of the New York local, was also convicted of filching union dues. Same day that indictments in the Browne-Bioff case were returned, a sick and saddened Bambrick received...
This sort of thing is fine if you're writing for the College Humor Swing Fraternity, and thus have a wide audience of rabid rugcutters from the jukebox campuses. It is also fine if you have an inclination for it, which no Crimson columnist has had yet. The commercial type of swing just isn't worth a weekly spiel from anyone's hardworking typewriter. Such a column would be only a series of publicity releases for a group which certainly doesn't need any more attention called to it. Their music has no other function than to sell itself...