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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleague who made the remark to Graham Patterson referred to in an item in the Feb. 27 issue of TIME entitled "God Pity the Farmers" I feel constrained to correct the impression contained in that comment. ... I cannot ignore the implied reflection on the character of Mr. Patterson. Your editors, without permission, have seen fit to broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, entirely out of its setting, a purely joking remark made among close friends. Your editors in their typical flippant manner have elevated a bit of careless joshing into an appraisal of character, which has no basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...those of us who are proud to be numbered among the friends of Graham Patterson his Christian character needs no defense, but I sincerely hope you will find a way to correct the impression your item must have made on his many unknown friends among Christian Herald and Farm Journal readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Edgar Allan Poe, the father as well as acknowledged master of the detective story and murder mystery, have several of his horror tales published in Godey's Lady's Book? Please correct me if I am wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Actually the speaker was not "continually" interrupted. Indeed he spoke uninterruptedly for over an hour and a quarter. In replying to discussion he was not heckled, for there was a chance to correct him in further discussion. He well realized this and it was only in his remarks closing the meeting that he dared make the accusation that caused the outburst. That was the slander that the POUM and the Trotskyites were in the pay of General Franco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...wish to correct a statement that appeared in Monday's Crimson. When the Harvard dining-hall employees met Sunday night in Cypress Hall, the Student Union as a whole had not yet defined its stand on the present labor situation in the dining-halls, Mr. Ogden, who spoke at that meeting made no pledge of support from the Student Union as a whole. He did, however, promise the cooperation of the Labor Committee which had had an opportunity to review the situation and arrive at a position. We offer this correction only to indicate that the decisions of the Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

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