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...Senator Taft threw in the sponge, told the Governors to write the domestic platform themselves. This was precisely what the Governors wanted. They split up in subcommittees, recast the heart of the platform. Iowa's Hickenlooper led a group which rewrote the veterans' plank; Nebraska's Griswold put teeth into the farm program; California's Warren and Washington's Langlie touched up the section on labor (which, in the Taft draft, had not even guaranteed collective bargaining...
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...
Opium & Acrostics. Editing The Female Poets of America, Griswold was involved in circles so vindictive that modern gang wars seem gentle in comparison. One slighted poetess misused a key to his room, read his private papers each day, quizzed the wives of poets to get material for troublemaking among them. The one delightful and wise woman among the poetesses - Mrs. Frances Sargeant Osgood - was Griswold's friend. She wrote Griswold this acrostic...
Reading down one letter of each line (beginning with F and moving one letter in with each line down) makes up Frances S. Osgood. A roughly similar pattern at the end of the lines makes up Rufus W. Griswold. Readers may find other meanings in the poem. Griswold was in deeper waters than he knew. By the time he wrote the introduction to Female Poets, he had tasted opium and suffered an epileptic...
Insulted and Injured. Modern readers know Griswold because of someone else. A penniless, difficult poet dogged him all his life. This poet was drunk, tormented, wild. Griswold replaced him as Graham's editor. Griswold quarreled with him, patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will...