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Skewered on Political Columnist Frank Kent's agile pen, a WPA pressagent named Hugh Amick and his New Deal employers were roasted for three days last week in the Baltimore Sun. Into the hands of Pundit Kent, who mortally hates & fears the New Deal's spending policies, had fallen releases by Pressagent Amick describing three camps for girls established in Kansas with some of the 50,000,000 Work Relief dollars set aside by President Roosevelt "to do something for the nation's unemployed Youth" (TIME, July 8). Largely by quotation, Pundit Kent drew the following picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: I Don't Know | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Concluded Pundit Kent: "No one can read Mr. Amick's account without wondering what is to happen when the $50,000,000 gives out; how, once started, the Government is ever to get out of this business of being the national nurse maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: I Don't Know | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...called Prohibition a "noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged individualism" was already itching to get into a momentous fight, the form of which even Franklin Roosevelt, smart politician though he was. did not yet clearly perceive. It remained for Pundit Walter Lippmann. once a good friend of Herbert Hoover, to take most of the wind out of that Republican's sails with these caustic words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Incurable Amateur | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Nevertheless, it was with only a faint smile that businessmen read a melodramatic pronouncement by Business Pundit B. C. Forbes in his Hearst column last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: NRAftermath | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

Dispassionately observed Political Pundit Frank R. Kent: "Probably the facts will never be fully known. To a detached observer, however, two things seem clear. One is that, without in the least doubting the veracity of Mr. Wallace or Mr. Davis, somebody connected with the AAA knew a lot more about this movement than they. They would, of course, welcome an investigation and it would establish their complete ignorance and innocence. Nonetheless, somewhere down the line, if all were known, there worked the hidden hand of a really skillful 'public relations counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: It Happened One Day | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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