Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission of a guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the Syndicalism Act. Miss Whitney, now 60 years old, prepared to serve her sentence, said that in comparison with Sacco & Vanzetti, she had little cause for complaint...
Said Mr. Martine: "The pilots will do simple straight flying [averaging 100 miles per hour] with no stunts and no races against time. . . . There is no comparison between the comfort of traveling by airplane and traveling by railroad. Our passengers will sit in comfortable chairs. They can get up and walk around. From their seats they can survey the country rolling past beneath them...
TIME should show better judgment than to publish such a statement as that one. We of the South have accepted Abraham Lincoln for the man that he was. We know our Jefferson Davis. History can show no blot upon his record, and such a comparison as that made by Representative Miller is thoughtless...
...TIME, June 13, p. 11, there is a paragraph called "Corruption" in which the comparison is made between "Caesar and his Brutus, Jesus Christ and his Judas Iscariot, the United States and its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois and Len Small." While this quotation is from a statement made by Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois, it is repugnant to your Southern readers that the name of Jefferson Davis should be associated with such names as these...
...head of many a potent U. S. newspaper, discussed in Editor & Publisher the ethics of crime reporting. After estimating that "the New York Times, which is a very thorough paper, printed more words on the Snyder trial than any other newspaper in New York," Mr. Hearst entered upon a comparison between the newspaper and the author: "There are various elements of interest in the fiction stories which appear in books and on the stage, and in the fact stories which appear in newspapers-such as romance, adventure, melodrama, comedy and tragedy. . . . "In dealing with all of these elements of interest...