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...time in the memory of any Washington newshawk a government official publicly acknowledged the aid of a ghost writer. Copies of a speech delivered by Commissioner George C. Mathews rolled off the SEC mimeographs headed: "Prepared by I. N. P. Stokes 2nd and Commissioner Mathews." It was no clerical blunder. The modest Commissioner made a point of asking the publicity department to place ahead of his own the name of the young lawyer who helped him-Isaac Newton Phelps ("Ike") Stokes 2nd, son of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral and a member of the pious copper & railroad house...
...Their thought here was that the Supreme Court and the Constitution could be put on the spot as a scapegoat in the public eye, and Government could thus move by a short cut to collectivism. They recognize this as a blunder now but they were positive then...
During the Washington workout, the Champion's seconds made only one blunder, but it was an incredibly stupid one. At a Presidential press conference, it was made known that Mr. Roosevelt had broadcast an appeal to the nation's parsons asking for "counsel and advice," especially on "the new social security legislation just enacted." The replies were not expected before the President's return from "a short vacation." But in many a city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery...
...unchecked say-so of Harrison's Reports, cinema trade paper. Actually, the persons mentioned had not been indicted in Ontario but merely mentioned in an indictment brought against others. Harrison's Reports and The Churchman, which promptly published a retraction when it discovered its bad blunder, were sued for libel by Gabriel Hess, general counsel for the Hays organization. From the cinema paper this spring Mr. Hess won damages for $5,200. Last month a Supreme Court jury in Manhattan found Dr. Shipler and his fortnightly jointly guilty of libel, assessed them $10,000 for punitive damages...
Southerners may wonder that so amiable and intelligent a Negro as Mose should blunder into such devilish complications, or provoke such vicious enemies, but they are not likely to cavil over Author Rylee's understanding of the peculiar problems of Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes...