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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your comments on "Questions & Answers" (RUSSIA, p. 13, Dec. 28 issue) are so disingenuous as to make one wonder if sometimes you may not distort the news to suit your purposes. Making a headline that utterly belies the contents of a news-item is an old trick in dishonest journalism. Who, outside of an editor of TIME, could consider the answers that Tchitcherin gave to the questions put before him anything but the essence of frankness, openness and the very opposite of "Machiavellian?" What could be less diplomatic than the answer to the second question, which says in effect...
That is something another national weekly (the ? ?*) will not do. Some time since, in answer to a correspondent somewhere in Iowa, this periodical stated: "Tenderfeet is wrong; the proper plural of Tenderfoot is Tenderfoots...
...answer is that his whole life has been spent in winning the confidence of the average man. He has the reputation of knowing more about what the farmer really wants than any one else in Congress. It is said that he receives more personal mail than any other member of Congress, and reads and answers every letter. Among the things he started were Calf Clubs and Pig Clubs. He put up money secured only by the personal notes of boys and girls. At the end of a year, the animals were sold and the youngsters pocketed a profit.* His success...
Farm Attitude. The farmers answer in effect that these considerations are not fundamental. Because of our protective tariff, all we buy is high priced. Because we have a crop surplus, the prices of what we sell are determined by foreign prices. We buy expensively and sell cheaply...
...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...