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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For 2½ days, frustrated Lawyer Hallinan tried by every trick he knew to rattle Schomaker, and found himself instead an unwilling straight man in Shoes Schomaker's comic routine. Hallinan tried to show that Shoes had too good a memory of events that took place years ago: "You...
"I like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone...
To this, Harper's editors added an admiring little note about "Horatio" DeVoto and the hope that every devoted reader would line up behind him.
"Would the editors . . . advocate that a citizen refuse to testify before the secret proceedings of a Grand Jury? . . . Would the editors deprive an applicant for a government position ... of their endorsement? Does the editorial admonition mean that Harper's advocates protecting a foreign agent against the security of the...
The editors replied "To each and all of Mr. Hoover's questions we would of course answer 'no' . . ." The difficulty was, they said, that FBI information was often irresponsibly used by congressional committees. This, they added meekly, was "through no fault of Mr. Hoover's or...