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When last fall the Daily published two editions simultaneously for a fortnight, one standard size, one tabloid, Editor Roberts was almost the sole member of his staff who liked the tabloid. Groaned diehard foes of tabloid journalism: "To hell with the doily-we want our Daily back!" But Minnesota's students voted 4,231 to 2,941 to have a tabloid...
...British Government treated as "common criminals, murderers and cutthroats." Today, tame and respected Eamon de Valera is a shrewd conciliator of Great Britain and a pillar of the League of Nations. He hopes his battles are over and that he is safe as Prime Minister of Eire, but the diehard Irish Republican Army has refused all these years to surrender its arms, fights on with recklessly placed time bombs and other murderous weapons of savage conspirators. As soon as World War II broke, the I. R. A. again raised that most popular of all Gael slogans, "England's difficulty...
Last week Dr. Ernest Gladstone Richardson, new Methodist Bishop of New Jersey, appointed new pastors to 35 of the 37 "vacant" M. P. pulpits. He pronounced the experience "most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...
...looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously...
...down with it went the House's bloodlust. By Saturday, when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge and party feeling above the welfare...