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...bloodthirsty, but good, true Americans who believe in freedom of all races, colors and creeds, but want to see changes made in the social, political and economic life of the country. I'd be delighted to explain the entire matter to the Dies Committee or anyone else and assure them we have no intention of trying to overthrow this government by force...
...Texas, but his Committee's answer was to subpoena Mayne. Shortly it announced that the letters were forgeries, that Mayne had admitted writing them himself. How did they come into the hands of Congressman Hook? Few days later up popped three answerers, ready & willing to explain: wealthy Gardner Jackson, well known in Washington as an incorrigible crusader for many a liberal cause, Harold Weisberg, his collaborator on a forthcoming book about the Dies Committee, and a newspaperman named John Henshaw. Henshaw had told Weisberg about the Mayne letters, Weisberg had told Jackson. Jackson, indignantly believing they were the goods...
...Piccadilly provost marshal remanded to Bow Street one Rev. Maurice Kenal Exham, 71, former Dorset vicar, for "wearing a military uniform calculated falsely to suggest that he was an Army captain." Quick was the vicar to explain: 1) the family of his 12th-Century ancestor, Sir Richard Exham, had been granted the right to wear military uniform "in perpetuity" by Henry II for aid in the Irish troubles; 2) the right had never been abrogated...
...genial and tough. Cocking his head to one side and narrowing his eyes, the president of the firm which usually makes 35% of the nation's steel ingots is given to saying that the corporation ought to get a price high enough to cover costs. Last week, to explain prices to the TNEC, Ben Fairless produced an expert, University of Chicago Statistics Professor Theodore Ott Yntema. Substance of sharp-eyed, youthful Expert Yntema's very technical mathematical-metaphysical testimony: the corporation is burdened with large inflexible costs; steel sales do not rise in proportion as the price falls...
...home he faced a new worry: how to explain his about-face to the stockholders who had trusted him with their proxies. Fortnight ago he rendered his apologies. Into Manhattan's Bankers Club for lunch trooped 85 Barnsdall stockholders and well-wishers. Honor guest was President Reeser. Host was Stockholder Rich. After oysters, turkey and ice cream he explained his conversion. His fellow stockholders digested, applauded, forgave...