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Hearst Documents. The special committee investigating the documents with which Publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to show a bribery plot between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot...
...would feel silly to allow myself to be annoyed by the mutterings of a dolt like this, except for the fact that he reflects an odious and rather ill-deserved light on Germans in general (of whom I am not one). I have lived several years in European countries, including Germany, and I have never noticed that there were more thickheads per capita in Germany than elsewhere, although misguided-† like this Muller are likely to give this impression...
...trifling. Two of her lovely ladies, for example, tour France with a charming philanderer. They find him out in time to save their friendship and in a manner that saves their self-respect. Yet just before the climax, tragedy impends. In another story, the mother of a grown dolt launches him on a literary career by publishing her own work under his name. The son's character does not change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given to heroine-worship, is taught his wife's heroism. An over-intense beauty kills two husbands...
...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. five years ago, Haley Fiske Jr. met some glum life insurance solicitors. His father, Haley Fiske Sr., was president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during his second year with Metropolitan he made his knowledge...
...long time people have been trying to find a phrase that will define the personality of the Rev. John Roach Straton, Manhattan preacherman. "Fundamental-ist," "Denouncer," "Loud Baptist," "Saint," "Savior," "Hypocrite," "Dolt" have been variously tried by friends and enemies; none have seemed adequate. Last week the Rev. Mr. Straton made still more difficult the task of definers by as- suming "the headship of all the religious activities of the Supreme Kingdom...