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...Congress have been having a wonderful time in my absence. "Furthermore, I expected on this trip to get some good publicity about the fish I was catching, but couldn't in view of the fact that here in Washington apparently you good people have been going from Wirt to Wirt." He paused, but the Congressmen were too befuddled by the sight of him to laugh even at a Presidential pun. "For you younger members of both Houses-speaking from an experience of many years in Washington-I want to point out to you the advantages of the Washington climate...
...hostess of the suburban dinner party last September, Miss Barrows, is a curly-headed blonde with a wide drooping mouth, a Vassar graduate and a divorcée. From 1914 to 1917 she was Dr. Wirt's assistant when he was reorganizing New York City's schools. Now she is a school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor...
...even from the mouths of these obscure individuals was alarmist Dr. Wirt able, on the stand, to substantiate his lurid allegations. None of them had actually told the 60-year-old educator that the America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been...
...Wirt concluded his testimony with the dubious report that a member of AAA's staff suggested that "our objectives" would be furthered if less help for the hungry were forthcoming, that Dr. Tugwell had planned a $1.000,000 institution to incubate radical views among jobless young college graduates, that the government's subsistence homestead project near Morgantown, W. Va. was "communistic...
...imprudent outcry from Lexington will for this reason play right into the hands of the administration, just as did the miscarriage of the Wirt inquisition, and the blasts of the Seven Wise Men of Harvard. In the long run the President will find himself in the difficult position of interpreter between a hostile East and West, speaking different economic language. It will be his impossible job to prove to the East that the West has the best interests of the Country at heart, and explain to the West that the Yankees are not opposed to reasonable agrarian reform...