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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME of Aug. 29, in its admirable sketch of William Gibbs McAdoo falls into a natural error when it says: "McAdoo helped nominate Wilson at Baltimore in 1912. He managed that year's winning Democratic campaign." McAdoo did this-but not William Gibbs, who had not yet attached his star or his heart to the Wilson regime. Wilson's pre-convention and campaign manager was William McAdoo, a Princeton graduate, resident of New Jersey and New York lawyer, quite a different person. I suggest that the young editor who wrote this sketch read up his political history...
Upon my return from a trip to the branches, I find on my desk your copy of Aug. 29, in which you show the Bank of America as borrowing $3,800,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for the period from July 21 to July...
Knowing your desire accurately to report the true facts in connection with any situation, I am writing regarding the article in your Aug. 29 issue, headed "Rubber Dolly...
...reason able discontent into winning votes. The West, historically Republican, talked as if it would break from its old moorings. Senator Borah said last week: "The West is still any man's fight." Four Mid-West Governors gathering at Sioux City last week to settle the farmers' strike (TIME, Aug. 29; Sept. 5), had the horrid word REVOLUTION dinned into their ears...
...authors would dare try. Jean Fayard, son and employe of a Paris publisher, flirted with the idea but did not let his flirtation go too far. As a result, his "true love story" won the coveted Prix Goncourt (1931) over such competitors as Saint Saturnin and Night Flight (TIME, Aug...