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...ardent New Dealer. During the campaign he promised: "I will support President Roosevelt-in every proper manner." Father of ten children, Democrat Donahey makes no pretense at being an intellectual giant or a political wizard. As Ohio's Governor, he used to employ a Columbus newshawk to write his speeches and State papers, used to staff the Executive Mansion with servants selected from "trusties" at the State prison...
Both its House of Deputies and House of Bishops had passed resolutions to send a "suitable message" to the President. But General Convention adjourned and it took a newshawk to remind Presiding Bishop Perry of the Bishops and Ze Barney Thorne Phillips of the Deputies that nothing had been done about the message. Dr. Phillips turned to Dr. Perry: "I'll write it and you sign it." "No," countered the Presiding Bishop, "you sign it and I'll write it." "No," parried Deputy Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate, "You sign it. I'm too close...
...Reed (Portland, Ore.) the rope snapped between Nos. 4 and 5 on the freshman tug-of-war team. Nos. 1 to 4 gamely held tight while howling sophomores dragged them through a muddy, 75-ft. slough neck-deep with icy water. As they emerged a newshawk approached spluttering Freshman No. 1, asked why he was there...
...sometimes does when he has a point to make to the country through its newspapers. President Roosevelt primed a friendly newshawk to ask him about commodity prices at last week's first press conference. He thereupon delivered a 20-min. discourse. Chief points: 1) the Administration, through AAA, HOLC and NRA, is still firmly committed to raising the national price level; 2) the goal will not necessarily be the fabled 1926 index, may aim at pre-War parity between agricultural and industrial prices; 3) wages will have to be upped responsively...
Promptly America, Jesuit weekly, called upon pious Methodist Ambassador Daniels to resign his post. To a Catholic newshawk Ambassador Daniels explained that he did indeed quote General Calles, but without commenting on the "character or quality" of Mexican education. America insisted: "Either he knew what Calles meant, or he did not. If he did know, he was guilty of an unwarrantable interference in Mexican politics, and on the side of the anti-Christians. If he did not know, then he should not be in Mexico as our Ambassador. In either case, he should resign...