Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Letters in recent issues of your lively magazine [TIME, April 24, et seq.] have protested against sending men under 40 or over 40 to fight in the next war, that there may be no dearth of fathers. Excellent! Let the next war be won by women past 45, that absolutely useless class! Having been for the last decade a widow in this group, fighting at the front would be a welcome diversion...
This protest [Julia M. Peck's letter, TIME, May 8: "I am disgusted. ... On p. 21 (TIME, April 17) you speak of Mrs. Roosevelt . . , whom we all respect and admire, as 'long-legged.' I am ashamed of you."-ED.] amazes me! I'm a sincere admirer of our admirable First Lady, who is exactly my height. I've always been vain of my long legs, pleased & flattered to hear them so referred...
...this week came Kansas City, Mo.'s sick Boss Tom Pendergast. His power to make Missouri Governors and U. S. Senators had failed to unmake charges that he evaded Federal income taxes on $443,550, allegedly took $315,000 of that sum in slush from insurance companies (TIME, April...
...bituminous operators, however, the strike was by no means an unmixed evil. On April 1 total bituminous coal stocks had piled up to 40,550,000 tons-nearly a six-week supply at the average rate of U. S. consumption (1,000,000 tons per day). Not all this accumulated coal was shoveled away during the strike...
...Corporation for the first prize of $100, while Ray S. Cline '39, of Dunster House and Terre Haute, Indiana, was named for the second prize of $50. Their names will have to be submitted to the Corporation for acceptance before they receive their awards for winning the examination held April...