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...David Lawrence this was an unwarranted Presidential whack on a spot already raw from a merciless blow of the Democratic National Committee's canny old Pressagent Charles Michelson, Picking up a Republican handout which recommended, among others, the columns of Lawrence & Co., Pressagent Michelson, in the Democratic Committee's frankly partisan weekly letter, baldly remarked early in April that "the Republican National Committee has formally taken over the Three Musketeers of anti-Administration, Frank Kent, Mark Sullivan and David Lawrence...
Blasting President Roosevelt with all the vituperative power at his command, David Lawrence, noted Washington correspondent, has charged the Administration with trying to censor his column. When a G. O. P. authority mentioned Lawrence's name among a list of prominent syndicated writers, Charlie Michelson, Democratic hero of the 1932 "smear Hoover" campaign, immediately dubbed him a Republican hireling, and hence unworthy to interpret the news. Resenting Administrative hostility and scenting a plot to strangle independent newsmen, Lawrence has raised a long and justifiable howl...
...facts stand, Michelson does not appear to have put on any dangerous dictatorial powers or attempted to club the press into abolishing Lawrence and his column. But the incident gains significance as an example of the fear in which the men who oppose the Administration walk. Lawrence's outburst sounds like the premature cry of a threatened child, but in a genuinely democratic country governmental officials should stand in danger of losing their jobs when they take so uncompromising and menacing an attitude as Michelson has adopted toward his critics...
...fair play is lacking when particular people are singled out for official venom. If the Democrats get a vote of confidence next fall, they will continue in office with the deep distrust of the large body of people that have fallen victim to the blackjack blows of press-agent Michelson and his White House scribes...
...Einstein universe the velocity of light is regarded as a fundamental constant. Ten years ago Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson clocked the velocity of light between two mountains in California, got an average result of 186,284.45 mi. per sec. For further precision he built a mile-long vacuum tube. Before the measurements were complete he died. Grizzled Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson and Fred Pearson, longtime Michelson assistant, carried on. Two years ago they announced that their measurements were showing systematic variations, an astounding situation which raised the question of whether light speed was a constant after...