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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no doubt that your usage of the term Jew is correct: however, this can also be made venomous when used synonymously as the photos referred to. I trust that you will in the future make all descriptions of Jews by their nationalities and when necessary describe members of my faith as "Hebrew" rather than "Jew." Your over-conscientiousness is not taken as an affront, but rather your desire to please your readers...
...departments enjoy the services of a paper-clipper like little Theodore Gilman Bilbo, onetime Governor of Mississippi, who last summer got a $6,000 a year job "assembling current information for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration" (TIME, July 3). In full swing last week was a Federal organization designed to correct this situation-the Division of Press Intelligence, which publishes a daily Press Intelligence Bulletin of 60 or more mimeographed pages of condensed news and editorials...
...scene that Harvard and Yale people will study on the cover of the official program at the Stadium this afternoon.--Sav's drawing for the Harvard A. A. News--is nicely turned out, colorful, lively, sartorially correct, and causes one to ask: What is wrong in this picture? Now you try and figure it out for yourself. Something has slipped, and careful study will disclose...
...statements supposedly setting forth facts, I find but three correct...
...foreign mission field . . . comes to about $260 a head. . . . In wicked New York the average cost of making a convert is placed by the most optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...