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...pages Frank R. Kent, famed Washington columnist of the independent Baltimore Sun, has collected his running commentary on the New Deal. He does not like it. But he thinks the new policies must run their course. There is no road back. No gloomy Republican of the Mark Sullivan stamp, he finds himself frequently speaking through a hypothetical character called "the old-fashioned Democrat." "Where are we going?" he asks. Old-Fashioned Democrat answers by being reminded of Columbus: "He did not know where he was going when he started. He did not know where he was when he got there...
...Wizard Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...
Thus last week wrote Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking...
...Columnist Arthur Brisbane gloated: "Geese will say 'How terrible to spend so much money for one picture in these times.' Wise men will say to the geese: 'You wouldn't get the money anyhow if he didn't buy the picture. He is to be praised for bringing that magnificent work of art to his own country, where thousands of young artists will see and be inspired by it.' Mr. Mellon is generous, lending his finest paintings for public exhibition...
...onetime Secretary of the Treasury was deserving neither of Governor Pinchot's criticism nor of Columnist Brisbane's praise, for he had bought no picture by Raphael or anybody else from U.S.S.R...