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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your article TYLER VERSUS LINCOLN, [April 9, you seek to discredit certain criticisms made by me on Abraham Lincoln by attacking and underrating another President, John Tyler, who had, of course, nothing to do with the case. Your comment shows that you have not kept up with the historical advance, for scholars are now agreed that the Bank was never an issue in 1840 and that Tyler was not a Democrat adopted by the Whigs but that he had as good a standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler...
...Louis Chamber of Commerce knows how irked Charles Augustus Lindbergh becomes when he hears the song, "Lucky Lindy," by Abel Zaer. Last week, Mr. Bixby told that at a Lindbergh party in Manhattan, he and others sang "Lucky Lindy" at Col. Lindbergh on purpose. Col. Lindbergh made no comment. Next day, flying Mr. Bixby and another of the singers back to St. Louis, the Lindbergh plane dived, climbed, dived, climbed, dived, all morning. Mr. Bixby is a good air sailor but the other singer, Harry Knight, became "a rich green" with airsickness. Then Col. Lindbergh turned around and said...
Henry Dwight, Sedgwich '81 is the author of an outstanding biography, "Lafayette". Percy Mackaye '97 has just published two collections of plays "The Gobbler of God" and "Kentucky Mountain". Robert Hillyer '17 has written "The Seventh Hill", a volume of verse which received considerable favorable comment throughout the country...
...article, I thought, without any moralising comment, but by merely recounting the situation, depicted a characteristic phase of our present social condition. Perhaps that condition is unpleasant to Messrs. Fries and Watson. It is to me. Nevertheless such incidents are news, and are not of the "Graphic" type when presented concisely, TIMEly...
...confined my questioning to such decisions as affected the ballot-box fortunes of the Negro in Dixie, and in not one case did Senator Glass either (1) decline to comment; (2) ask me to treat anything he said as confidential; or (3) request me to tone down the fervent quality of his responses...