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Discipline. Chief of Staff Craig, reading General Hagood's testimony in the Washington Star, wrote his subordinate to ask whether he had really said what was reported. Fourteen days later "by direction of the President" General Hagood was deprived of his Corps Area command-a terrific slap for an officer of his rank. What happened in those 14 days kept Washington guessing last week. New Dealers, doubly sensitive in a campaign year to such catch phrases as "stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should...
Postmaster General Farley, No. 2 man in the business of getting Franklin Roosevelt reelected, is no Mark Hanna, but he does know the practical operations of a political machine. The sophisticated may jeer at him, the righteous denounce him, but ward bosses understand his language and appreciate his friendly slap on the back...
Sirs: What would Theodore Roosevelt say regarding the New Deal? He would slap Franklin on the back and say, "You are doing bully, Franklin. You know my old gang has changed since I was here and it will take a Roosevelt to clean up after twelve years of Mellon reign. Take my old Big Stick and go after them. You can do it!" JOHN W. SECREST Oklahoma City, Okla...
...among other items, that employes should have a voice in the company's affairs. But the voice was to be expressed through duly elected employe representatives. For the employes to go over the heads of these representatives to hold mass meetings and cast secret ballots, was a resounding slap at Cooperation. "I believe in the Cooperative System," said Mr. Senter solemnly, "as much as I do the Bible which my mother gave me." Employe-stockholders booed. Mr. Senter reminded the men that the trustees had restored wages to pre-Depression rates and warned them about the inadvisability of changing...
...theater manager liked Bing's style of Boo/doo/ta/dooing a song, and Bing met. A Rinker, a pianist, whose for tunes were locked with Bing's through enough slap bang, up-and-down footlight experience to kill two normal lads, including tours with Paul Whiteman as two of the Rhythm Boys who used to render a powerful Mississippi...