Word: backdoors
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...issue of TIME of Jan. 29, under the heading ''Backdoor Men" you paint a direful picture of the lawyer-lobbyists who sell their influence. . . . You printed my name among others so classified...
...issue headon. With a righteous ring the President answered the question not in direct quotations but in such a way that every newshawk got his meaning: the practice of lawyers capitalizing on their political connections is not in keeping with the spirit of his administration, since it implies backdoor access to administration officials...
Thus did President Roosevelt slam the backdoor with a bang which was heard all over Washington and which reverberated for days in the country's press headlines. No names had been named but everyone knew whom the President was talking about. Immediate results...
...China's capital. Nanking, to Japan's leading newsorgans Nichi-Nichi (Tokyo) and Mainichi (Osaka), delivered the first shock to 4.000.000 slant-eyed readers. They read that a smart Japanese journalist claimed to have caught U. S. Minister to China Nelson Trusler Johnson in a piece of "backdoor diplomacy" as amazing as it would be unfriendly to Japan...
...know," says the man. "I don't know," says the next man. All is confusion. The firemen have not yet come. The front hall is full of flames. Some men are pounding at the locked backdoor...