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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: On p. 63, Feb. 24 issue of TIME a great record by a great cow, Carnation Ormsby Butter King of 38,606.6 lb. milk and 1,420 lb. butter fat. But-The American Shorthorn Breeders Association, Chicago, Ill. claim for a Milking Shorthorn world's record for butter fat from the Australian Milking Shorthorn Melba 15th of Darhalara. Record 32,5221b. milk, 1,614 lb. butter fat. How about it? WEXTWORTH P. BLODGETT...
...also had, in the Congressional Record for Aug. 13 extended remarks on TVA, the New Deal and the Negro.-ED. Wisconsin's Unpleasantness Sirs: Unworthy of TIME was the statement under Wisconsin Dismissals" (TIME, Feb. 24) that ''local dailies" were "strongly pro-Spears, because, Meanwell protagonists claim, Spears had previously promised their two sport columnists university employment if he obtained the 1934 appointment as athletic director...
...Wisconsin State Journal is concerned, the libel was not softened by attributing the claim to "Meanwell protagonists." In presenting news reports of Wisconsin's great unpleasantness, the State Journal hewed to the line, was neither pro nor con anything or anybody. After both doctors had been dismissed, it did editorially crack down on the athletic board for painting Spears dark black, Meanwell lily white, upholding the board of regents' contention that the aspersions cast on Spears were unfair and unjustified...
Editor Mich need not take offense. Charges of an "influenced" press were as much a part of the Wisconsin unpleasantness as the "thousands of unsupported assertions" regarding whiskey bottles, petitions, promises. But TIME willingly records the State Journal's claim to journalistic integrity.-ED. Color Reproductions...
Last week the $140,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, which southern Floridians claim will make the lower half of that State an arid waste, was back in the Washington news when it was discovered that President Roosevelt is apparently determined to push this project despite the House's refusal to appropriate money for it (TIME, Feb. 17). The President started this Atlantic-to-Gulf waterway with five million relief dollars, allotted $200,000 more when that ran out. Last month the House declined to appropriate $12,000,000 to keep the work going, on the legitimate ground that Congress...