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...cover to your last issue has prompted me to send this message to you. You evidently harbor Hitlerites within your organization. Have been a subscriber to TIME and FORTUNE for many years in my son's name, Julien M. Saks. You have many Jewish readers-ardent ones. Should the Jewish people (I happen to be President of this section of Council of Jewish Women) seriously consider boycotting your magazines you probably would awaken to the realization that the Jews in this country are quite a factor and wield a wide influence. Am writing this as a friendly protest. Your...
Tongue Sirs: Although a trifle less than 100 years old, I am an ardent reader of TIME, the most fascinating and informative of any of the magazines to which I subscribe, and if this characterizes me as a freak, I feel deeply complimented. For over 50 years I have bred, fed and sold thousands of spotted pigs from coast to coast. In the live stock world there is a slogan: "Mrs. Conrad has spotted the United States," and I have been the only president of a live stock record in this country. This misguided man Abbott, who, on my birth...
Helpful though the President's message was to their cause in the South, many ardent antiProhibitionists wondered why Mr. Roosevelt persisted in endorsing Repeal syllogistically instead of stepping out boldly in his own person and saying: "I favor Repeal...
...proceedings. As a point of departure, Mr. Buchholz analyzes the composition of the Association, which he finds composed of two distinct classes; these are first, the "glory-seeking pedagogues," who aspire to the formation of a Federal Department of Education, and second the "do-gooders," a group of ardent Methodists and Baptists, fired with the reformer's zeal and egged on by their Nebraska Cambellite leader, James William Crabtree. The article traces the various misdirected activities of the two groups, supporting its conclusions with apt and revelatory quotations from the journals of the Association. The picture presented is that...
Alexander apparently delighted in shocking not only the bourgeois but his fellow Romanoffs. News of his two brothers' execution by the Bolsheviks did not prevent his attending a dinner party. No very ardent believer in the divine right of kings, he held the unpopular view that the Romanoffs were out of Russia for good; in 1919 he bet the members of the U. S. Delegation in Paris that "within the next 20 years nothing would be left of the Treaty of Versailles and that the Soviets were to endure in Russia...