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...What does Mr. Coolidge think of. . . ." and finally regrets solemnly that the President will be detained for several days in secret conference on the Mayflower, but hopes Mr. Schmaltz will drop in again next time he is in Washington. Unembarrassed by having overheard this White House conversation, Author Lewis stool-pigeons Lowell Schmaltz through interminable monologues. He is then able to present the following data...
...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...Reporter Moses Lamson was set upon Negro Crowe's scent. He used skullduggery and pipelines of sly information-police, stool pigeons, private detectives, Pullman porters, servants. . . . Shrewdly he asked the best catch-scamps -doctors-to watch for the villain. The quarry has cancer of the stomach (TIME, Feb. 20, MEDICINE...