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...that General Hagood made a stump speech, volunteered nearly everything, whereas the Committee had, as a matter of fact, led him on to express his opinion in full. Two days later the Press published the testimony and General Hagood's "stage money" made headlines. The General sent another telegram to several members of Congress: "I am deeply shocked at being accused of criticizing the President. No criticism could have been intended, as I am personally a staunch advocate of the Administration and know full well that the President has done more toward proper housing of the Army than...
...Since Jefferson Davis is dedicated to provincial playgoers," sagely remarked the New York World-Telegram, "it is not to be considered by fastidious Broadway standards...
...forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called him "a servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb and all the silver in your pockets which you got by speculating in Wall Street. . . ." Said the Radio-Priest...
When Editor Tom Shea of Scripps' Portland News-Telegram saw this story splashed on the Oregonian's front page, he promptly assigned a reporter to interview the murdered man's widow. Mrs. Akin hotly denied the tale, declared that her husband would never have confided in Israel because he knew Israel was a thief and hated him. When he read that statement in the News-Telegram, Jeweler Israel sued the paper for libel, asking $100,000 damages...
...truth but privilege was the News-Telegram's defense. Its counsel argued that a citizen attacked in one newspaper should be legally privileged to retort through another newspaper with a defense which might include a counterattack on the attacker. That seemed fair enough to the jury but the trial judge, who said he had never heard of such a defense, set the verdict aside. The News-Telegram carried an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, last month got a unanimous verdict in its favor...