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...press conference few minutes later President Roosevelt showed himself in no mood to abandon propaganda or talk of propaganda. Through the Press the country could hear him speaking about as follows to the Washington newshawks: Were people talking about a "death sentence" on holding companies? They had the timing wrong. The real death sentence was passed long ago by holding companies on utilities investors. For stockholders the bill's "death sentence" was actually an emancipation proclamation. The Administration was out to save their dollars and it proposed to succeed. It would give them a chance to live instead...
Unlike most historians, Du Bois candidly admits that he has an ax to grind, declares that "the mass of American writers have started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South...
Next in the train came 1929, also bearing signs such as "Whose Babies Are We," or "Another Five Year Plan Gone Wrong." They were dressed in orange and white. Next came 1932, dressed in nightshirts and pushing before them a baby carriage in which was a real baby, (Mr. Felton's, we believe) over which towered the sign, "Is This the Class Baby?" Another banner declared "We Do Most of Our Own Work...
...wrong to lay all of the blame for gross inefficiency on the former regime. In fairness it is essential to recognize the obstacles that they faced, obstacles which often precluded the possibility of successful operation...
...receivership, bankruptcy and endless litigation, it was apparent that John Hertz's heroic efforts had made the Paramount hulk worth raising. The studios were unaffected, theatres were open and by the end of 1933, with the help of Mae West's first hit (She Done Him Wrong), the company was making money. Upshot was that a number of people began to take a hand in the salvage operations...