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...Kennedy's overstuffed briefcase came for Mr. Roosevelt's inspection stacks of reports "too confidential for the cables." In them, some said, was a basis for a U. S. move toward international peace. Stuff & guff, said others; in the Kennedy dossiers was proof there will be no international peace soon.* Only sure fact was that Mr. Kennedy likes to spend December in Florida...
...that he does not represent its views on this subject, when the Dec. 30 issue of The Commonweal publishes two articles by high Catholic Churchmen blasting his statements, when outstanding Protestant ministers and laymen have condemned such vicious un-Americanism, how long are people going to listen to such guff from the head of the discredited Social Justice political party...
...disillusioning thing is that this man, believe it or not, the same who delivered Friday evening's guff, graduated from Harvard College, in good standing, about thirty-two years ago. Perhaps those who have repeatedly told us that educated men should go into politics were on the wrong track. Not that intelligent youth should shy from public service. Not that the problems of government are too narrow to challenge the gifted. But that, judging from our eminent example, and from Abraham Lincoln, perhaps brains and character are more important than, and not essential to, education, good family, and wealth...
...Statesman devoted to "the obsolescent President" a full page editorial headed Pecksniffian Guff, and savagely said: "After years of sonorous silence, only punctuated now and then by the utterance of some discreet inanity, he suddenly delivered a sort of dying kick with a viciousness of which few people on this side of the Atlantic would have supposed him capable. His Armistice Day speech was in effect a denunciation of Europe and all its works from the standpoint of a 100% New England backwoodsman...
...traditions and former party allegiance are just the other way, but I am going to vote the Democratic ticket this year. I think Smith is more liberal and more candid, and I do not like Hoover's habit of handing out to the public the old fashioned political guff we have been forced to stomach since McKinley's time...