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...usual painfully shy self. But on the second day he perked up, grew garrulous, cracked mild jokes. Coached by his famed chief counsel, smart little Frank J. Hogan of Washington, he seemed actually to enjoy reminiscing publicly over his rise to power, sketching a portrait of himself as patriot, father, man of affairs...
Characteristically, Counsel Hogan opened his case by presenting Mr. Mellon as a greathearted, cruelly persecuted philanthropist and patriot. Climaxing a long recital of his client's good works, he announced that Mr. Mellon had long intended to build a great public museum in Washington to house his $19,000,000 collection of art treasures (see p. 32). Throbbed Lawyer Hogan: "God Almighty did not create a man who could at the same time and with the same heart be giving such a great gift to humanity and, on the other hand, be scheming to steal from his Government...
...have just stabbed Matsutaro Shoriki, the unpatriotic publisher, in the neck!" he boasted. "I am a patriot. My name is Katsusuke Nagasaki. I am 28 years old and belong to the Warlike Gods Society...
...paid for a single masterpiece. As long ago as 1931 he had started putting money into a trust fund to build a public art gallery in Washington. These facts were developed at a tax hearing in Pittsburgh last week (see p. 14). With the air of introducing a great patriot and generous patron, Frank J. Hogan, Mr. Mellon's astute Washington attorney, announced that his client had put $3,200,000 into his museum trust fund in 1931, that the Alba Madonna would go into that museum along with four other great canvases which Mr. Mellon bought from Moscow...
...make us the whipping boy of Europe by joining the League Court. . . ." All this outcry sold newspapers and presumably whipped Hearstreaders into a mild frenzy of fear and protest. With that any ordinary publisher would have been content. But William Randolph Hearst is also a Power and a Patriot. So while his newspapers foamed noisily, the private Washington lobby which he has long maintained to fight for U. S. isolation and lesser Hearst, causes went quietly into action...