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...wallflower. A few days earlier, he had written a blistering ten-page letter to the editors of the Washington Star, nailing them to a barn door and skinning them alive for daring to criticize his oil setup. Given a chance to do the letter over last week, he would doubtless have cut it to five pages...
Inside, at a lunch table set for two, sat North Carolina's stubborn, gnarled old Congressman Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. For embarrassed Mr. Morgenthau, the lunch was doubtless a painful experience. For Mr. Doughton, it was a gala, never-to-be-forgotten occasion...
...asserts that 1) his paper has no agreement with anyone "either to print news or to refrain from printing news"; 2) despite severe newsprint shortage, it still prints 15 to 24 columns of foreign news. As of the present, however, Editor James's claim for the Times is doubtless correct. Certainly the Times has one of the world's outstanding coverages of foreign news...
Sheridan, best Northern cavalryman, was 34 at the end of the war. Nathan B. Forrest, whom General Sherman called "that devil Forrest," and doubtless the best Southern cavalryman...
Said OWI Director Elmer Davis: "[The] willingness to accept wildly exaggerated rumor in place of fact is doubtless due to honest bewilderment. I can assure you that up to noon today [Oct. 28], when I last talked to Navy representatives, all sinkings of major United States vessels have been reported...