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This gratuitous slur, I take it, is not due to malice but to ignorance of newspaper conditions in Brooklyn. For your enlightenment, therefore, I beg to acquaint you with certain particulars...
...quoted in a telegraph story in Tulsa as saying Bill Murray didn't have a chance. I never said no such thing. And I want a retraction, an old fashioned 'Beg Your Pardon.' because you are the first newspaper reporter I've seen on this trip...
...seemed to tempt the amateur will Rogers continually. The newspaper did not dignify these events with print, but they nevertheless had their evanescent fame. One inspired youth waited for half an hour in the procession in order to confront the outstretched hand of the president with lifted eyebrows and "Beg pardon, I did n't get the name...
Assuming you wish to be correct in all your statements, I beg to state that the picture of the Blessed Virgin painted by Saint Luke is not in Rome, but in St. Mark's in Venice (TIME, Dec. 28). It is shown to the people for a few days at certain periods of the year. We were fortunate enough to see it in November, 1930. MARY A. F. BRENNAN...
...only Finance Minister since the Revolution who has been able to get enough money together to run a central government. Smiling Chiang was still the most powerful military leader in China. The temporary government under pudgy Cantonese "Premier" Dr. Sun Fo could get nowhere. It was forced to beg Chiang Kai-shek to return. That he did last week as acknowledged head of the Chinese Army. Next move was the resignation of Sun Fo. He took with him Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, received promises of support from General Shen Ming-shu, commander of the troops stationed in Shanghai. Sneered Chen...