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...Ickes testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee. He spoke only for Mr. Lovett, an employe of his Interior Department. But the principles he championed applied to the cases of all three. He reminded the Congress that the Constitution laid down a regular procedure of impeachment, by which Congress may rid the government of misbehaving officials. For Congress to short-circuit the Constitution by withholding funds for an official's salary was, he declared, an encroachment on the rights of the Executive. In this case it was also nothing less than an unconstitutional condemnation without judicial trial...
...felt something at his leg. He looked down and there was a little brown dog chewing at his sock. He was surprised, and he wondered what a dog was doing in the House. Maybe he ought to get rid of him, but it was an awfully cute...
From several neutral sources in Europe came a story that the Germans were about ready to get rid of Boris (his father, Ferdinand I, abdicated in 1918, just after Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies). According to this account, Boris knew all about the plot and has allowed his police to protect the Communists who recently assassinated four prominent pro-Nazis in Sofia. The supporting facts: 1) although Boris' police made a great show of placing Sofia in a state of siege, and searched many houses, the assassins were not arrested; 2) the Bulgarian people have made it abundantly clear...
...University of Chicago. He wrote an article for his college's undergraduate newspaper, distributed clippings of it to Sun staffers, including Founder-Publisher Marshall Field. It berated the Sun for departing from its liberal line, for failing to live up to its possibilities. Cried Copyboy Newberger: "Get rid of Publisher Silliman Evans and assistants . . . and replace them with fighters of the Sam Grafton, Max Lerner, Ralph Ingersoll type. . . . What the Sun needs is dynamic leadership." (Copyboy Newberger still...
...planes to his credit, Colonel Robert L. Scott, former aide to Major General Claire L. Chennault in China, boiled over in anger: "I know I could do one service. . . . Destruction with six machine guns ... of John L. Lewis. I definitely believe that by such a coldblooded act I could rid the country of a man who acts as though he were in the pay of the Japanese Government...