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Sirs: . . . Your article of the May 11 issue, entitled "Statesmanship" refers to continuation of the Dies Committee. The article asserts: "Once a loud Dies committee booster, the American Legion now looked the other way." The American Legion emphatically urged continuance of the Dies committee, as evidenced by the enclosed letter sent to every Representative on Feb. 26, 1942. Representative Joe Starnes, vice chairman of that committee, addressed the National Executive Committee of the Legion at Indianapolis on April 30, at which meeting continued support of the work and purposes of the Dies committee was voted...
Once a loud Dies committee booster, the American Legion now looked the other way. The press grew more & more hostile to an investigation that seemed irresponsible. Many who once thought Martin Dies served a purpose -when there actually was a fellow traveler behind every other lamppost -became more & more sniffy about his methods, said the FBI could look after such things better. But fewer and cooler headlines made Martin Dies reckless. He made the mistake of colliding with Vice President Henry Wallace, and the encounter sent him fizzling away to Texas. There he announced his latest fantasy...
Oratorical Gerald L. K. Smith, onetime Huey Long lieutenant and veteran of political wack-movements, said he was thinking of running for the Senate from Michigan as a booster of Father Coughlin...
...Paddy the Booster, who peddles ties he has stolen from haberdashers...
...Phony Booster, who peddles sleazier ties which he claims to have stolen but which he really bought very cheap. Paddy despises Mac as a racketeer but, as the dipsomaniac bouncer at Jollity Danceland tells him, soothingly, "It takes all kinds of people to make up a great city...