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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Challenge Sirs: A feeling of mental asphyxiation engulfed me when I had analyzed the communication published at the head of TIME'S "Letters" column, issue May 22. As the signer is a close kin of mine I am overcome with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel...
Those who persevered to the end of this "column' in last week's CRIMSON will perhaps remember that rather sweeping statement in the last sentence; that almost evry important item in the early history of Harvard College, and in a lesser sense today, has arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand. This was of course a rash and heartless statement, based on a newspaper man's false notion that the world moves on sentiment and sensation. But before the writer pleads guilty of ignoring the "great underlying forces which have molded Harvard's glorious history" he would...
...June 19 issue of TIME, on p. 13, in the first column, I read: "Robert P. Skinner . . . established diplomatic relations with Abyssinia by riding into Addis Ababa on a white...
...definition of news, the stature of opposing counsel alone should have been enough to make the Washington trial worth at least a half column inside story. Besides potent Lawyer Wilton John Lambert, the Hearst defense included William Edward Leahy, onetime Government prosecutor of the late notorious "Nicky"' Arnstein, more lately defender of Al Capone against the Government. Also Publisher Hearst's closest legal adviser and board chairman, exceedingly able, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan, dropped in on the Washington trial...
...editorial, cartoon v. cartoon, colorlessly balanced. There were the familiar sentences of transition: "It seems to the Tribune that two effects will be observed: . . ." "Says H. H. Bennett, writing in the New York Times: ..." "As the Auckland (N. Z.) Weekly News tells us: . . ." There were the "Current Poetry" column, and "The Spice of Life" page of jokes. That was two weeks ago. Last week what would they have found on the newsstands? ¶ A Digest whose cover consisted of a photograph of President Roosevelt, topped by a red band. ¶ On the first inside page, an article "Written...