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George Allen, who moved to Washington in 1929 to reorganize hotel properties (including the swank Wardman Park), has been one of the most powerful men in the Truman Administration. An affable, self-deprecating man, he is part court jester, part speech writer, part handy man. On the side, he is also vice president in charge of public relations for the Home Insurance Co. and a director of 22 corporations, some of them controlled by smooth, smart financier Victor Emanuel. He said he would probably have to give up most of these private jobs...
Entitled "Let Freedom Ring" and signed by the Emergency Council, the stapled muzzle proclaimed in patronizing tone that the "function of Jester "is to be a humorous magazine, in the New Yorker Style, but the editor has chosen this issue as his personal medium for an adulterated discussion of a matter which has already been settled...
...Emergency Council regrets that the new students are not getting a true example of the Jester Magazine. The issue might have been donated to the scrap drive, but we prefer to use it as an illustration of the genuine freedom of the press that exists on the Columbia College Campus...
...third page, Jester had run another editorial disparaging "Your New Emergency Council" as a student governing body unrepresentative of the students: "Easiest-method of joining the Emergency Council is to browbeat ten students to sign a petition for one of those quiet elections which slip by every term or so. Since competition is rarely keen, this eliminating process often leads to what is known loosely as election...
...interim board, the still-adamant staff announced that it would discontinue publication until fall, when it would receive reinforcements (returning editors) in its fight against the Council. But the Council wasn't sitting still; it named a five-man panel, including two V-12ers, to edit Jester...