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...Asked to explain a recent appeal in the Townsend Weekly for a "defense fund" to be placed at his personal disposal on the "very great possibility" that the House investigating committee would impound OARP's funds, Dr. Townsend admitted after persistent questioning that he knew the committee had no power to impound his organization's funds...
Almost any other Senator would have sought some method to explain that letter away, but not handsome, debonair...
...right there by all those who heard two other Journalism Week orators. Bronzed, bushy-haired Publisher Bernarr Macfadden of Liberty, True Story, True Romances and Physical Culture took the platform to explain the secret of his success in the publishing business, part of which he credited to curiosity...
...Thomas Cantrell Dugdale's portrait of Actress Vivien Leigh in bed, the Royal Academy's pressagent thought it necessary to explain that the artist, calling to arrange sittings, had found Miss Leigh ill in bed, decided to do her that way, in a sheer blue nightgown. Only ''challenge to orthodoxy'' in the show was a double portrait of another actress lying on a couch in her unmarried personality, leaning over the couch in her married personality...
...proposed resolution of Representative Edith Nourse Rogers at Washington calling upon Secretary Hull to explain why adequate protection was not provided the American legation in Addis Ababa during the crisis is only one more example of the American policy of advocating insurance in a loud voice, refusing to take the responsibility of paying the premium, and then raising a loud howl when the building is half burned. It not only flagrantly disregards the true facts of the case, but is the usual type of crown to cap the parlor patriotism on the front pages of the last few days...