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Best guess as to what had upset Senator Johnson's newly acquired composure was an observation anent Captain Ingersoll's trip by New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock to the effect that he was "expertly informed that, should it at any time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds...
TIME deserves congratulations for giving the facts of the Duck Hill lynchings simply and dispassionately. Many biased Northern journals will jump at hasty conclusions anent this lawless act, falling into the common error of generalizing from too few cases...
Belated are the heated protests of loyal Southerners anent the picturing of William Tecumseh ("War . . . is all Hell") Sherman on a U. S. postage stamp (TIME, Feb. 22), for no precedent is the Post Office Department setting...
...Essential Experience Sirs: As an uncooked college undergraduate who for many years thought babies were found by their mammas under geraniums, and as a mere male whose interest in child-birth will be forever academic, I ought to keep my mouth shut about Dr. Nielsen's unhappy squawk anent the use of analgesics, but I can't. Upon reading her statement (TIME, May 25) that the pains of child-birth have been grossly exaggerated in the minds of American women and that a woman's personality may be damaged if the normal course of child-bearing...
...Anent "experience," Dr. Taylor looks back along 47 years on a poverty stricken youth, postgraduate work at Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, the accident which crushed his hands and ruined his hope of becoming a professional organist, a superintendency of schools in Oregon, and nation-wide wandering as a Chautauqua lecturer. Out of this he has the formula for successfully throwing oil on trouble human waters. Remembering his youth, he gives organized charity the sizeable contributions he receives from well-wishers...