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...argued as to whether they could keep a secret. For, early in the week, some Senator had let out a great Senatorial secret. So far out had the secret got, that it was published in all newspapers served by the United Press. The press hero was United Pressman Paul Mallon, who trained in the Notre Dame journalistic tradition, would never reveal a secret he was not entitled to divulge...
Somehow Pressman Mallon had secured a complete list of the Senators as they had voted in secret session for or against the appointment of Roy O. West to the dynamite-loaded job of Secretary of the Interior...
...next day appeared Paul Mallon's despatch, naming by name the 54 Senators who voted for Mr. West and the little band of only 27 who voted against. The Senate was scandalized. Vice President elect Curtis, Senate housekeeper that he is, investigated all the servants (clerks, etc.) and pronounced that none of them had given away the secret. Only one alter native: some Senator had "snitched...
...others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might eat. A woman, "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, is also there for life, for like cause...
With Hoover. For the Associated Press -James L. West, W. B. Ragsdale, Mary Bainbridge Hayden. For the United Press -Paul R. Mallon...