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...Detroit Free Press, Mr. Huntley said: "How do you do, Mr. Bingay-how are you and how's the Detroit News?" Editor Bingay's Free Press has for several years conducted a running Ight with Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. but Pressagent Huntley's next conversational ambit is reported to have been: "Mr. Bingay, our paper must have influence with Father Coughlin. Why don't you get him to open up on Roosevelt and the New Deal?" Mr. Huntley is then supposed to have led dismayed Editor Bingay into the office of Republican National Chairman Henry Fletcher...
...ambit of the book, like space, seems unconfined. The main part, however, is devoted to a vigorous defence of the author's character, which has been much maligned by the French for weakness in dealing with treachery behind the lines. He terms all such niaiserie "legends" and proves that sedition in the Army had been cured by his pill before Clémenceau came on the scene. Following up the attack, he says that it was he and not Clémenceau who ordered the arrest of the most notorious traitors, notably Bolo Pasha...