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...touchy strategist, popular with his officers but fatally careless of administrative detail, was Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
...long-time reader of TIME and admirer of its accuracy, I was amazed to read (Nov. 17) that isolationist propagandists Eggleston, Feagin and Stewart "found . . . congenial company in . . . the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva." This statement is completely false...
...TIME regrets having associated the Maytags (washing machines) with isolationists by implication. TIME drew a wrong inference from the fact that Isolationists Eggleston, Feagin and Stewart (of Scribner's Commentator and The Herald] were entertained at a, big picnic on the Maytag estate. But no Maytag was present, the Maytag house was closed, and no Maytag was aware of the political views of the guests. Hostess was a Mrs. Vickers, widow of a Lake Geneva dentist...
...them suddenly turned up last week in headlines as witnesses before a Washington grand jury investigating Nazi propaganda. One was a tall, double-chinned brunette named Bessie Feagin, whose memory "failed" when questioned about a master mailing list. Other two-accused of obstructing the investigation-were George T. Eggleston, a balding collegiate type resembling Jimmy Roosevelt in unmatched coat & pants, and Douglas M. Stewart, a stocky, heavy-lidded Boston esthete with a taste for antiques and Aryans...
...queer to townspeople that the editorial staff should include two watch men. They could not figure out why "The Strangers" moved there in the first place. Some said it was because Lake Geneva is "Restricted to Gentiles"; some said that rich isolationist Lawyer Bill Trinke promoted the deal; Editor Eggleston said they picked the location for its peace & quiet...