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...resounding welcome. When he finished talking there was only a sprinkle of clapping. The New York Herald Tribune observed in a notable understatement that the speech left its hearers "grumpy." No public rebuttal developed, the bankers retiring in groups to their offices to sputter such redundant epithets as "inconsistent meddler," "impractical reformer," "theoretical logician...
...Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial missing, in its place an urgent plea for the election of the Rev. Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor had lost his mind dis covered that instead he had lost his job be tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation and advertising...
...back page of the Tuesday "American" carries a cartoon depicting Uncle Same deaf to the entreaties of two sharp-nosed individuals labelled conspicuously "Meddler" and "Busybody". Page 5 of the same issue prints the headline "Attack on constitution taught Harvard students" There follows a garbled but strong criticism, of Harold Brogan's "Government of the People", the text now in use in Government 1: of Professor Holcombe; and of Professor Laski, the author of the foreword. All are accused of spreading subversive and communistic doctrines among the students...
Sweeping these contentions aside, in Hartford, Conn. last week U. S. District Court Judge Edwin Stark Thomas, who four years ago cracked down on another meddler with the Fink process, found GM and the others guilty of infringement, enjoined them to stop, ordered a special master to examine profits and fix damages...
...Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen . . ." (TIME, March 25, p. 14) The Old Man" (affectionate alias by majority of Nebraskan voters) was never Kansan was is and will continue to be potent . . . non-meddler in patronage, reluctant recommender. Still Nebraska claims wholly. Kansans please quitclaim...