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Sectional Censorship. Chief affliction of U. S. textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers...
Early last week rumors began flying in Williamstown, Mass, that President Tyler Dennett of Williams College was going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between...
...introduced a resolution to direct the State Department to cable Ambassador Dodd for his billionaire's name. But Senator Nye was not to have the fun and publicity which Congressional inquisitors got out of the dictator nightmares of Major General Smedley Butler and Gary's Dr. William Wirt in 1934. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman promptly came to the aid of the State Department by getting the resolution referred to his committee for "study and inquiry...
...executive." The Attorney General, sitting in his red-carpeted room in the handsome new Justice Building, is justifiably proud of his office's progress since the great, corset-wearing William Pinkney quit the job because he did not wish to live in Washington, and since William Wirt had to beg for two washstands. Not until 1822 did the Attorney General have official quarters, then only one room in the War Department. Not until 1870 was there a Department of Justice, although duties wished on the Attorney General had been tremendous. Jealousies arising from Congressional dislike of reorganization delayed...
...President wrinkled his brow. Who, he asked, was Dr. Wirt? Again the great Roosevelt laugh boomed out above the newshawks' giggles...