Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your story "Baltimore Peace," (TIME, July 30), anent the controversy between Archbishop Curley and the Baltimore Catholic Review and the Baltimore Sun, you have the Review accepting, as an apology from the Sun for its insult to St. Ignatius' Loyola a statement which was rejected by both Archbishop Curley and the Review...
Sirs: Your article anent Insull in the May 14 issue left me with the following impression: Bighearted, genial Sam Insull was a true friend of the peepul. He had saved up a little nestegg of $100,000,000 out of his earnings as a secretary to Edison and felt reasonably well-fortified against a rainy day. He disliked money and hoped he never made another nickel, But he was continually hounded by common folk insisting that he take their savings to invest. Sam didn't want to do it. He had planned on putting his own money into some...
...Anent the vituperative letter of one George Eustis Corcoran (TIME, May 21) relative to your publication of Samuel Insull's bashful physiognomy and the reporting of the Astor-Gillespie folderol, may we accept the compliment of "Being on a level" with TIME...
...Anent Mr. Wagner's indignant protests against charges of unfairness and discrimination towards Mr. John Charles Thomas because of his nonappearance at a scheduled recital, the matter is not as simple as Mr. Wagner would have us believe [TIME...
Sirs: . . . Anent the story of the Washington peanut vendor, it is the perfect publicity story. If said story was saved during election campaign, it could net candidate using it 100,000 votes throughout the country. The story is the acme of a pressagent's glorious triumph-pathos, human interest, and the milk of human kindness- also BUNK. The story was obviously concocted to entrench more solidly the President with the ''masses," and of course it brought countless remarks from the gullible as to the kindness of the understanding pilot of the great ship of state. Would TIME...