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...There is no possible chance for a real Baptist to pussyfoot, or make a detour around the deity of Jesus Christ" said Reverend James W. Brougher, D.D. of California at the opening meeting this week of the Northern Baptist Convention at Washington. And thus again appears in public print one of those examples of poor taste so often a part of modern ecclesiasticism...
Next day alert Peorians learned that Lincoln Eyre, able correspondent of the New York Times, had cabled an interview which William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson had just given him in Berlin, Germany (TIME, April 5, GERMANY...
...York Times, hastily queried, vouched for the veracity of Mr. Eyre, secured from Wayne B. Wheeler (super-prohibitionist syndicated by the New York Times) a statement that Pussyfoot was certainly abroad, probably in Berlin...
From Manhattan, the Times sent radiograms poking around Europe in search of Correspondent Eyre, who could not be found. The wireless editor pulled out the original despatch. With the usual economy of words it read: "Pussyfoot arrived Germany intending make it second Sahara," which seemed ample justification for the rewrite man to have written: "William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, well known Dry crusader...
Then, at last, the radio found Correspondent Eyre, who indignantly replied that his original wireless read "Pussyfoots" not "Pussyfoot," that he did not have reference to the one-eyed, but to the general species of professional prohibitionists...