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...second term; less anxiety strain on the President's health; less need for hypocrisy; less control of the President by the Party; more freedom of presidential leadership; more time to carry out a program; more prestige; Party freedom from the tradition of renominating its President, etc. Arguments con: hypothetical need for a second term in time of national emergency (war, depression); increased irresponsibility of the President to the people, etc. (These con arguments apply equally to the second term under present system...
...cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset is your lifelike picturing of humans and happenings. Carry on, TIME. A. S. MACGREGOR East Aurora, X. Y. No clear majority of readers "commands otherwise." Scores of letters through last week: 238 con, 252 pro. This TIME construes as a firm mandate to continue mirroring Nature with respect to President-elect Roosevelt, since objectors far more prone to write than approvers. Managers Praised . . . Congratulations on Jan. 9 issue, which shows TIME'S managerial staff as wide awake as its editorial half! JOHN...
...hope many more will express their views and give facts in support thereof, as I would consider the question from every angle in a book on the subject. If you cannot publish all the letters received, please forward them to me, and also invite your readers, pro or con. to write me direct. No matter how hard they hit. I shall appreciate their honest opinions, as a member for many years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...with every question of such vital import to members of the University, many reasons, pro and con, have been advanced. The gentle-minded say that pity has been taken upon the school children, presumably, who lose their finest marbles through treacherous cracks. The hard-headed say that no longer is there an abundance of hard wood. The practical-minded point to the costs of labor. The average-minded jingles elusive coins in his pockets, and decides it is for the general good. The foreman of the present crew of workers recalls one of his men having found as much...
...reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command of 1) the Government of the Japanese Leased [from China] Territory of Kwantung; 2) the Japanese Kwantung Army; 3) the Japanese Army in Manchuria proper and all parts of the so-called independent state of "Manchoukuo"; 4) all Japanese con suls throughout Manchoukuo...