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...columns of print in their Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
President Coolidge and "Texas" Guinan, Manhattan night club proprietress, were strangely linked by the New Student (intercollegiate clipsheet). Each had refused to give interviews to freshmen competitors for the editorial board of the Princetonian (undergraduate daily). President Coolidge was speciously said to be reluctant to meet "a reporter from a college with Princeton's strong Democratic traditions." Proprietress Guinan was wary because Prohibition agents had once used the ruse of a college youth seeking an interview to hand her an injunction which padlocked one of her raucous night clubs...
...Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has a publication known as The Clipsheet. The following article recently appeared under the caption "UnAmerican Indecency in New York Theatres...
Taking exception to a "scene in a show where Mr. Ford is made to appear as President, and particularly to a line . . . in regard to 'Axel,' the son of Ford," The Clipsheet commented: "If we were Mr. Ford, this line would be cut out of that show in mighty short order...
...trouble began when Mr. Slemp began to make exceptions to the newspapermen's rulings. One Elbert Deets Pickett, managing editor of The Clipsheet, Methodist Church paper (see page 18) applied for admission for himself or his representative to the President's press conferences...
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