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...Truman: It was nothing of the kind. Another reporter wondered whether the President had intended to omit the "damn" in "say what he pleases." Said the President: Yes, but he would put it in if they wanted him to. When the President tried to change the subject again, Doris Fleeson, whose syndicated column appears in the Fair Dealing New York Post, stuck to the old one. Said she acidly: "Some of us think our business is very important." Snapped the President: Sometimes he was not so sure...
Jackson baldly stated that he thought it was Black who had waged a subtle war in Washington to keep him from getting the Chief Justiceship. He intimated that Elack had used pert Washington Star Columnist Doris Fleeson to further his ends. He quoted from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
...follow-up story came out in the New York Daily News. Not to be outdone, Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson printed a story which at week's end was still undenied by its principal-Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones. Lender Jones was reported present at a discussion of an alleged British Lend-Lease requisition for glasses of all kinds-sherry, port, brandy glasses. The order supposedly ended with a request for several drums of rum. Doubtless not bearing in mind Dunkirk, Libya, Crete and the R.A.F. every night over the Channel, Jones is supposed...
...correspondents of the New York Daily News, John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson, who often produce scoops from Administration sources, announced that Franklin Roosevelt had decided that: 1) there is merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...felt, at least Justices Brandeis and Roberts were on the best of friendly terms with Justice Black. And, leaping on the back of Chief Justice Hughes's remarks to the Law Institute, the New York Daily News's enthusiastic Washington Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson broke all records for conclusion jumping on the subject: "Developments in the Capitol . . . suggested again that some of the lawgivers of the United States Supreme Court had hitched up their judicial robes and in dignified fashion were in the process of putting the slug on their colleague, Associate Justice Hugo...