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Publication of these Castlerossisms seemed to fill British aviators with blind rage. Shouted Capt. B. A. Davey, one-time War pilot : "If war were declared one afternoon one-third of London's population would be wiped out by morning. It would be an all-night affair. Lord Castlerosse is talking through...
...condemning the "political chicanery" of Ohio's relief regime, President Roosevelt was making few enemies among the Buckeye State's regular Democrats. For Martin Davey, who turned his father's experiments in tree surgery into a profitable, high-powered business, got into office by a pair of political accidents. Bitterly opposed by party regulars, he was nominated only because two other candidates split the majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with...
Against the Hopkins charges, Governor Davey, wise after eight years in Congress, had several defenses. Had he not, protesting Ohio's inability to raise its share of relief expenses, already invited complete Federal relief control? Had he not written Mr. Hopkins a fortnight before of his suspicions of "political influence" in the relief administration? Was not the Ohio Legislature at that very moment investigating relief irregularities...
...Neatest Davey comeback was his declaration : "I know absolutely nothing about the financial affairs of the Democratic State Committee. . . . My lack of knowledge in matters of this kind is exactly the same as the President's lack of knowledge of how Mr. Farley raised the money to make up the deficit in the financial affairs of the National Committee...
Most sensational Davey riposte was to swear out a warrant charging Harry Hopkins with criminal libel, which he followed up with a 700-word telegram to the Administrator...