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...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...
...Department of Agriculture and Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. in the R. F. C., Columbia professors both. Senators and Representatives privately denounce them as "second-raters" who command no widespread academic respect, flay them as radical theorists who are about to strangle the U. S. Government to death. Oft-repeated are the predictions that some day the power of the "Brain Trust" over the White House will cause a terrific rebellion within the party against its leader. But Dr. Moley, jealous of his close association with the President, is no radical. He believes in economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover...
...Heard Louisiana's Long flay a Senate investigator into his State rule as a liar, scoundrel, thief and forger...
...Post went on to flay the English-Speaking Union editorially. Excerpt: "Pearls of wisdom which fall from the lips of Sir Frederick Whyte . . . shall not be cast before - well, not before run-of-mine citizens of Cincinnati thru the medium of newspaper news columns...
...remarkable that Pundit Lippmann should flay the Herald Tribune's candidate. The paper engaged him, as a wise observer and able writer, with the understanding that he should enjoy freedom of expression. Month ago he plumped publicly for Roosevelt. But seldom had he been so sharp-spoken and the obvious deletions, plus the editor's note, started a rumor through Manhattan newsrooms that Walter Lippmann had been censored by Publisher & Mrs. Ogden Reid. Newsmen recalled the case of Colyumist Heywood Broun who was fired from the late World, when Lippmann was editor, for writing too bitterly about...