Word: feagin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Strangers" looked queerer and queerer. Lake Geneva enjoys a certain rural isolation but these newcomer Isolationists were a puzzle. Three of 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...