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Object of Priest Coughlin's personal appearance was to convert his filing case audience into a working political organization. The Detroit gathering was to be the first of a series of organization meetings. Father Coughlin told a newshawk: "It's got to be done, and if I fail it means annihilation for me. ... At the least sign of slowing up, my enemies inside and out-side the Church would nail me. They wouldn't pay much attention to the sportsman's code about shooting a sitting bird...
Though illiterate, young "Dave" Lewis learned the gift of eloquence from his father, a Welsh coal miner who was a Baptist preacher by avocation. At 20, Son Lewis went to a labor meeting and spoke so stirringly that a newshawk said to him: " Boy, you ought to be a lawyer." At 23, Lewis was. And ten years later, having settled at Cumberland. Md., he began a political career, long, thorny, courageous...
...Gridiron Club banquet at which 400 places were laid in honor of the Club's 50th Anniversary, the President, speaking at his best and off the record, endeared himself once more to his newshawk friends...
Unabashed, a newshawk chirped, "Is your hat in the ring...
...Author, A native of Brooklyn, Robert Whitcomb, 32, comes from "good stock, Yankee Americans" with a dash of Dutch. He has studied forestry, worked in a lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb...