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...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...
TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...
...Doctrine" of unyielding nonrecognition of Manchukuo. Abruptly last week President Roosevelt moved to pin on Manchukuo an odium worse than any attaching to Russia. The President sent the State Department's assistant chief of Far Eastern Affairs, Stuart Fuller, to read a 1,700-word U. S. protest anent Manchukuo to the League of Nations' Opium Commission in Geneva. Pointedly ignoring the existence of any such state as "Manchukuo" and insisting that its territory is the rightful property of China, Mr. Fuller, while careful not to mention Japan by name, denounced the regime behind puppet Regent Henry...
...short while ago TIME OUT shocked the immortals with his gloomy outburst anent the condition of the football team. For a while it looked as if he were on the winning side but the wind was taken out of his sails in exactly five minutes. And the five minutes that turned the trick were the first five minutes of the Bates game. Ironically enough the player directly responsible for his demise was Danny Wells, the very one with whom the article dealt most vehemently...