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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
That is typical of the sneering writings of that columnist, Heywood Broun. At least, TIME, I am glad that you were gentlemanly enough not to quote that sentence from Mr. Broun in your Sacco & Vanzetti story (TIME, Aug. 15). All good Americans should know that Mr. Broun is the most blasphemous son Harvard ever had. And I hope that all good Harvard men as well as the New York World will disown...
...error. TIME merely stated, In reply to a subscriber's question (TIME, Aug. 8), that no story had appeared in TIME concerning a convention of Lions International...
Scandalous reports concerning His Majesty King Michael I, aged 5, were circulated last week by newsgatherers returning from the funeral of King Ferdinand I (TIME, Aug. 1). After snooping about Rumania for a fortnight, the Associated Press correspondent stated positively that...
Thus ruled the executive committee of the United States Golf Association, and accepted Voigt's entry for the National Amateur Championship. Thus collapsed charges which resulted in Voigt's ineligibility in the District of Columbia (TIME, Aug. 8). The charges originated out of Voigt's employment as a secretary to Edward B. McLean, Washington publisher with a private golf course. The above list of doings which Voigt has not done constitutes the U.S.G.A. tests for all amateurs...