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...Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock on a small lake where he catches pan fish and hunts ducks. More important, the election meant that henceforth the Guild would be run by the kind of man whom most newspapermen regard as typical of the hardworking best in their profession...
...author of Prejudices, Notes on Democracy, In Defense of Women, The American Language, etc., is aware that he has entered what he calls his "autumnal-years." He is not the riproaring Mencken of the 1920s, when his name was on the lips of every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker...
...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...
...Fifteen newspapermen on leave this year from newspapers all over the country are studying and reading here under professors throughout the University, and working on special interests and personal problems...
...TIME, Sept. 1, you report President Roosevelt reading a certain quotation from Lincoln to newspapermen [about the need of the U.S. to wake up to the fact that it was in a fighting...