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...season finds these huge holdings reduced to approximately 3,500,000 bales. . . . Not having been slow to criticize Government entrance into the cotton market, it is a pleasure now to commend the wisdom of decision and the skill of execution in liquidation of Government cotton holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cotton & King | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Keynoters & Chairmen | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...talent of Mr. Bontemps is considerable. He has the authentic skill of the novelist in choosing a theme likely to interest readers, in telling a story not in propria persona but through the words and actions of characters; in fact he has every gift to commend him to the reader's respect except greatness. The lack of that quality in Mr. Bontemps is serious, for he has chosen for the motif of his novel the events of a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, and such a theme requires greatness. It is beside the point that greatness is still...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

...wish to commend you on your unbiased, complete and interesting biographical article on "Average American" Mark Sullivan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Evanston, Ill. Sirs: . . . You will probably be deluged with letters from your readers deploring the publishing of the photograph illustrating the actual murder of Gerald Thompson by the State of Illinois. I wish to commend your action. Let TIME in every subsequent issue publish at least one photograph of an execution, until your readers with delicate stomachs do something about this nasty business of legalized State murder. . . . SAM G. WILDMAN Placerville, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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