Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I didn't know there were any left. For Melville Phillips to admit (TIME, July 16) himself "a speculator" and his "account under-margined." Mr. Pecora must be falling down...
Because spring frost delayed and summer drought blighted the German potato crop the blockade had to be relaxed in July to admit Italian, Dutch and Belgian potatoes, but it was jerked tight last week. German importers groaned as they were cut down for August 1934 to a quota of only 5% of their average monthly imports for 1931. Meanwhile the textile industry factories were put under pressure to weave artificial fibres into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since...
...Rudyard Kipling's now famed stories, presented in person, because "they were not up to the high literary standard of the Examiner." "Jim" Crown, city editor of the New Orleans States, locked all the doors of a church meeting which turned into a brawl and refused to admit even the police until he had noted the name of every person present. Henry Justin Smith, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, told how a diver, grateful for a courtesy extended by the paper years before, telephoned from the bottom of Lake Michigan to the News desk, introduced himself, gave...
Next morning the General's outburst gave Secretary of State Hull an uncomfortable half hour. Herr Rudolf Leitner, German Chargé D'Affaires, acting for Ambassador Luther who is at home in Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson...
Publishers Covici. Friede admit that A Cool Million is a rich mixture of Voltaire's Candide, Horatio Alger's Sink or Swim, Adolf Hitler's My Battle. Those U. S. readers who recall Author West's little-noticed satire, Miss Lonelyhearts* will expect something pretty funny as the upshot of this medley and they will not be disappointed. A Cool Million, of the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is really a U. S.-imitation Candide. Though Author West's satire lacks the bite of Voltaire's, it is sharp enough to take the hide...