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Politely but without a heel-click, Colonel Hurban, who speaks fluent German, asked his callers to speak English. They demurred. He insisted. Lest he burst into Czech, the secretaries finally, in stumbling English, said they had a telegram from Berlin. Colonel Hurban asked to see it. Embarrassed, they said it was "secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced...
...fair, Cartoonist Kirby has made his reputation by mercilessly caricaturing meanness, greed and hypocrisy wherever he has found them. Because he sees these qualities most often in reactionary politicians and businessmen, he has lately been more & more at odds with the front-office policies of the increasingly conservative World-Telegram...
When the World folded in 1931, Rollin Kirby said: "The Telegram is about the only paper I could work for after the World. During my entire 19 years on the World I was never once called off an issue or ordered to go light." This was not so on the World-Telegram. His contract obliged him to follow the policy of the paper, and last year he had to draw two cartoons (pillorying a borough president's assistant because he was a Communist) that outraged his sense of fairness. Since then, no love has been lost between...
Last December 31, Cartoonist Kirby's New Year's cartoon appeared in the World-Telegram crudely redrawn, his 1939 baby made fatter and healthier than Kirby had meant him to be. Cartoonist Kirby walked out of the office, and for a month no Kirby cartoon appeared. Roy Howard talked him into going back to work, promised that his cartoons would not be mutilated again. Kirby stayed on, missing his friends, of whom only a sulking Broun was left...
...childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering and Edward Wyllis Scripps went to his rescue...