Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: You stooped pretty low in your picturing of Mrs. Hoover on the title page of TIME for Aug. 18. Your accompanying letter press expressly quotes her as saying she got a thrill when her hand touched the prow of the mighty vessel which she used the bottle of water in christening. Yet you quote her words "a real thrill" under a picture which shows her holding the basketed bottle in a setting which offers the observer no suggestion of a ship or any connection with the object for which the bottle was used. Basketing is commonly used on liquor...
Thanks for turning up the item (in your issue of Aug. 11) about Fascist soldiers firing on a rescue party of St. Bernard monks, ft did not appear in any of the dailies I read. . . . My greatest (presumably unattainable) ambition as a modern woman with civilized tastes: to snub Mussolini...
...reference to the letter and review [of The No-Nation Girl in TIME, Aug. 11, may I call your attention to two mistakes made in stating the plot? Allow me to quote from the first paragraph of chapter 5. "Cliff Dale could not have been called a northerner." He was purposely created a composite. His mother a "luxury loving daughter of a plantation owner of the traditional grand style." His father was from Pennsylvania. Cliff spent about half of his time in the south with his uncle, thus he was both by inheritance and environment about half and half...
...Muchenberger's Way Sirs: I have been reading a great deal, of late, in your columns on ''SPEND UNTIL IT HURTS" (TIME, Aug. 18). I have a little suggestion to make in furthering the aims of such an enterprise, which if you think worthy, publish in your columns. As an employe of the Muchenberger Bros. Wallpaper and Paint Co., of Kansas City, Mo., I, with other employes were called together one eve by our President, Mr. Leo Muchenberger to receive not a lecture, but a heart-to-heart talk on the present economic condition of our great...
...been performed on animals, this was the first time a man had been subjected to such difficult research. From such experiments Dr. George Washington Crile of Cleveland developed his bipolar theory: the brain is the positive pole, the liver the negative pole of the body (TIME, Nov. 5, 1923, Aug...