Word: hyperthyroids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, which is loudly "against people who push other people around," is itself probably journalism's No. 1 pusher-arounder. Its Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll last week directed a hearty shove at one of his own columnists, Fiorello LaGuardia. Wrote Ingersoll...
What was the truth of it? Manhattan's hyperthyroid leftist PM put out a screaming Page One headline about GEN. MORGAN'S HITLERITE ATTACK ON EUROPE'S JEWS, but four days later its own Correspondent Victor Bernstein cabled from Germany "it must be emphasized that a great part of Morgan's statement . . . had firm foundation in truth." Sobersided New York Timesman Raymond Daniell corroborated him: "There is a regular underground organization;" it "maintains secret collective centers . . . gives Jewish refugees false papers and cash for the journey...
...Marshall Field III last week added another $5,000,000-a-year business to his publishing empire. It was an odd buy for the No. 1 "angel" of New Deal literature, who already puts out such evangelically leftist journals as the Chicago Sun, Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, and the once-conservative monthly Southern Farmer (now run for Field by ex-NYAdministrator Aubrey Williams...
Most of the U.S. press, viewing the proceedings with mixed emotions, called for a fair trial, but no nonsense. Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM warned its readers that Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...
Three ex-newsmen labored to cement U.S.-British good will. Major Ralph Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of Marshall Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...