Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East, to one Zeb Vance Walser. Mr. Walser is a G. O. P. worker in Lexington, N. C. The letter got misdirected to Lexington, Ky. In it, Senator Moses said he was enclosing an article by a South Carolina journalist in New York. "It is red hot stuff," said Senator Moses, "and I wish you could get it put into some North Carolina papers...
What the "red hot stuff" was, the press was most anxious to find out. But Mr. Raskob would not release it until Dr. Work had had fair opportunity to reply...
Senator Moses came out, too, with some unpleasantries. He was vague about the "red hot stuff" he had sent to Zeb Vance Walser. First he said he had sent out "so much material" he really could not recall which was which. Then he said it might have been anti-Tammany or anti-saloon material.* He did not deny that it was "viciously anti-Catholic," as Mr. Raskob said it was. But he roared: "Who is this John J. Raskob that seems so agitated because a Southern Democrat has written something which I thought to be 'hot stuff...
...cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster which will come to the nation if the Pope wins control of the Government . . .and contains the most vicious and lurid attacks on the Governor, assailing him in the vilest language...
...reasonably censure a reader either for refusing to credit it or for concluding that it raises grave doubts of Vanzetti's guilt. No lawyer would be willing to accept it without the most rigid cross-examination; no lawyer would be willing to ignore it. It is the kind of stuff that must pass through the fire of a forensic adversary proceeding and be evaluated by the constituted trier of fact...