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...American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to examine the text books attacked by Professor Robey. And in Philadelphia at a P. E. A. meeting over which Professor Miller presided, Professor Rugg and his critics unsheathed their swords. Cried Professor Rugg, glaring at the Economic Council's Merwin Hart: "These men are . . . enemies, enemies of our children. Mr. Hart speaks as a representative of business, I as a representative of the American people...
...last fall superpatriots, led by Merwin K. Hart, president of the New York State Economic Council, had ousted Dr. Rugg's books from a number of smalltown schools (TIME, Sept. 9), had got them banished entirely from the Georgia list. At a hearing before the Georgia Board of Education, a State police captain pointed a finger at Professor Rugg, cried: "There sits the ringmaster of the Fifth Columnists in America, financed by the Russian government...
...clients are bank presidents, business executives, hotel managers, or fond family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent style, by famed Society Painter Charles Hopkinson). For each job it gets them, 460 Park Avenue charges its artists a 33⅓ % commission...
Inquisitive Reporter. In Washington, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan reported a conversation that took place one day last week at a White House press conference. First apologizing for his presumption, Reporter Merwin H. Browne of the Buffalo News asked Franklin Roosevelt a question: "In your forthcoming political speeches do you intend to answer charges . . . that you are seeking to become a dictator ... if you are elected to a third term...
Last week, as the Democratic Convention got under way, veteran, grey-haired Correspondent Merwin Browne asked at a press conference. "I would like to ask Mr. President, in all honesty and sincerity, why you have refrained from making known your position on the Third Term issue." Correspondent Browne had written and rewritten his question so that it would not provoke a wisecracking answer; had memorized it so that he would not fumble the asking. Replied the President: let the newspapermen listen to the Convention broadcast; they would hear Senator Barkley make an announcement for the President when the Convention...