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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Possibly, Grandson Ulysses (TIME, Aug. 9, POLITICAL NOTES, p. 10) may be in error in believing that the General was christened Hiram Ulysses. I have in my possession two signatures- one written just after the unwilling cadet had been received at West Point-"U. H. Grant, Georgetown, Ohio"; the other, not long after graduation-"U. H. Grant, 4' Inf." Evidently, Grandson has the names reversed. CHARLES PLATT...
...TIME, Aug. 2, p. 6, ARMY AND NAVY, "The Naval Committee last week went through the usual formality of investigating the disaster after it had happened." Check up on the word "Committee." Except for purely social functions committees are rarely appointed in the Navy...
...note in TIME, Aug. 2, a letter from Terrell Croft, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, stating that your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p. m. on July 14 to his address. I'll admit that in this case TIME made good time. However, I wish to advise the gentleman from Yucatan that Montana is always to be found on the map, and is not in the "slow" class by any means. Your issue of Aug. 2 was received by me at 9 a. m. this morning, Aug. 1. It happened to be Sunday, which accounts...
Subscriber Bunbury's letter in TIME, Aug. 2, p. 2, leads me to set at rest any idea that other New Yorkers may share his opinion regarding the reprints of TIME'S Printers' Ink advertisements...
...president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair-growing processes that they averaged 19 Ibs. heavier than two-gland rams; yielded half a pound more wool per clipping. The mutton increase, if "glanding" were continued, would be about...