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...storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook it brown." Uncooked and still open-minded, Editor Sedgwick...
...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...
...Black Hills. 1927 started off with President Coolidge's vehement veto and denunciation of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder having commanded attention for the subject with his writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Navy faultfinders less eminent but no less vehement are now able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
ALFRED E. SMITH-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3). "Al Smith's face is always reddish. In the heat of a vehement address it becomes crimson. He sweats ... he is all that could be desired of a Governor, even by the most correct of critics. . . . His tailoring is immaculate, there is about him just a trace of his trucking days. ... He is discordant, often awkward, lacking in versatility. . . . Tremendously effective. . . ." It is difficult, in writing the biography of a living statesman, to indicate his character without becoming technically libelous. This difficulty Author Pringle has met rather than avoided...