Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been having quite a discussion in our office as to the nature of the object held in the hands of Mr. Cecil B. DeMille, which is the cover of your Aug. 27 issue of TIME...
Sirs: I've been waiting years for the chance to be one of the bright lads whose letters inform readers that "TIME erred," so you can understand my elation when I saw the picture in the Aug. 27 issue in which you have Partners Simon and Schuster confused...
...your issue of Aug. 27 you pay a well deserved tribute to Raymond M. Hood. I knew him very well. He was a lovable companion and a splendid man to work with, and were he here today he would be the first to take up his pen to correct a grave injustice which you have done to his associate, John Mead Howells...
...Yesterday my attention was drawn to the following extract [TIME, Aug. 27]: "Last December J. David Stern, an ardent New Dealer, bought the New York Evening Post and in February hired Dr. Gruening as editor. . . . For all their enthusiasm for social reform, Stern of Russian-Jewish extraction and Gruening of German-Jewish extraction were unable to see eye to eye." . . . Would you be surprised to learn that David Stern is not of Russian extraction but of the same as Dr. Gruening, although further removed...
TIME airwriter erred. In TIME for Aug. 13, under Aeronautics, this appeared: ". . . it was the Sikorsky S-42, world's largest amphibian." The 542 is neither an amphibian nor the world's largest anything. It is the largest American-built flying boat and, beyond a doubt, outperforms any ship of its kind in the world, but that is all. World's largest amphibian is Sikorsky Model 540, better known as the Yankee and Caribbean Clippers. 542 will always be strictly a flying boat. TIME airwriter undoubtedly mistook beaching wheels for landing gear...