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Skinny, smiling, bearded Doremus Jessup was editor of the Fort Beulah (Vt.) Daily Informer, an old-fashioned liberal whose paper expressed his independent views. He lived contentedly with his motherly wife, his belligerently outspoken daughter, enjoyed a quiet love affair with the Fort Beulah feminine rebel despite his 60 years. As an alert editor, Doremus was interested in the rise of a Western Senator, Berzelius Windrip, commonly called "Buzz," a bubbling and buoyant individual whose personality and career closely resembled those of the late Huey Long. Windrip ruled unchallenged in his own State, built roads, enlarged the militia until...
Over the length and breadth of the land, even in Fort Beulah, trouble broke out. Doremus' hired man, "Shad," grew more insolent than he had been, spied on Doremus, became secretary of the League of Forgotten Men, then commander of the local branch of Windrip's private army. Windrip dissolved Congress, arrested protesting Senators, imprisoned his ally, Bishop Prang, had Prang's rebellious supporters shot, ordered his Minute Men to turn machine guns on crowds. When Doremus wrote an editorial criticizing such statesmanship, he was locked up, his son-in-law was killed, his paper taken over...
...fury of Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan around the leonine head of fat old Rev. Edward L. Brooks last week. He put on a leather "aviator's'' cap and a heavy ulster and uprighteously faced, besides the elements, the bitter accusations of his neighbors at small Beulah, Mich. Those neighbors never did approve the resort for unmarried mothers and baby bastards which this retired Congregational clergyman operated at Beulah. They suspected that Brooks let poor babies die or even had them killed, that he buried them in the dune sand among the second growth birches...
Last week their suspicions of scandal caused uproar in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin whence came Brooks's husbandless clients. Circuit Judge Frederick S. Lamb, sitting at Beulah as a one-man grand jury, summoned Brooks for questioning. Along went his adopted son Edward, a cripple who tended the herd of goats whose milk nourished the children. Along also went the wives of both men, and the orphan girl and two boys whom they were raising. Along, too, went Michigan welfare workers and State policemen who brought the accusations...
...inquisitor learned that Brooks once conducted the Beulah Home & Maternity Hospital in Chicago two doors from the garage where seven Chicago bootleggers were massacred on St. Valentine's Day, 1929. A search of the House last week disclosed a musty operating room and bundles of letters from girls promising to pay for upkeep of themselves and children...