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...notable feature of the Supreme Court debate is that articulate Franklin Roosevelt, having alienated a considerable portion of his liberal following, is for almost the first time confronted by a formidably articulate opposition. Among U. S. journalists, no more facile penman exists than The New Yorker's famed E. (for Elwyn) B. (for Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quiet Crisis | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Back from Chief Rockwell came a sheet of White House stationery on which the White House's veteran penman, Adrian Barclay Tolley, had traced in spidery Spencerian the following message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Happy Ending | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Some members of a prospective For-Landon-Before-Cleveland club: Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller: onetime Ambassador to Mexico J. Reuben Clark Jr.; Penman Walter A. Schaeffer; Saltman Sterling Morton; Princeton Professor William Starr Meyers; Publisher Eugene Meyer; Railroader Ralph Budd; Motorman Charles W. Nash: President Michael Joseph O'Brien of Chicago's Stock Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...John Dickinson, Penman of the American Revolution", Professor Murdock, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

...John Dickenson, 'the Penman of the American Revolution'," Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/9/1926 | See Source »

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