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"The chain-store corporations have been woefully weak in telling their story. They have turned the other cheek every time they were slapped." Together with A. & P. he has hired Lawyer Francis Biddle to fight the constitutionality of the tax, but his real faith is in the court of public opinion. Says he: "I am convinced the craze for anti-chain-store legislation will evaporate like fog in the sunshine when people become acquainted with the facts."
*Currently engaged in building himself up with Southerners as Presidential timber for 1940, Governor Earle is not unaware how unpopular chain stores have been in the South.