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...first page of the Herald Tribune's second section last week, and flanking Pundit Walter Lippmann's animadversions, "On The Record" began with no self-conscious fanfare but proved to be reading matter as solid as its famed neighbor. "I, like 120,000,000 other Americans," began Columnist Thompson, "will probably never grasp the truth about the money system." Thereupon, with no further matronly misgivings, Miss Thompson proceeded to discuss the profundities of the Corporation Tax Bill for some 1,500 words...
Born. To Arthur Brisbane, 71, Hearst editor & pundit, famed booster of marriages & babies; his first grandchild, son of John H. Reagan ("Tex") McCrary and Sarah Brisbane McCrary; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
Judicially stretching his indignation over the whole subject of legislative investigations, Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out that investigating committees act as both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice...
...different opinion of General Hagood's offense was strongly put forward last week by Pundit Walter Lippmann: "He was testifying, remember, by invitation of Congress; he was testifying, remember too, at what he thought was a private meeting. He was making no public speech. He was conducting no propaganda. He was speaking solely to the body that under the Constitution originates money bills. Nearly two months later the committee published his remarks. General Hagood did not publish them...
...Publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, his son-in-law Edward Bok, and Mr. & Mrs. George F. Tyler, who gave the $1,000,000 School of Fine Arts now headed by Sculptor Boris Blai. In 1929 Thomas D. Sullivan, president of Philadelphia's Terminal Warehouse Co. and brother of Pundit Mark Sullivan, left $278,000 towards a library. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, President Beury turned to the PWA for $550,000 to complete the building...