Quotation by State of Utah

Language was vigorous because, because ... editors usually "laid all the cards on the table so as to leave their hands ... free for more persuasive arguments!" The citizenry at large retaliated as best they could.
State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Element in quotes is from J. Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism. Utah: A Guide to the State (The WPA Guide to Utah), p. 150, in "Press and Radio," Hastings House (1941).
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