Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader McGill is correct. TIME erred in following the reports of the Associated Press and United Press which gave a mistaken impression. The case concerned a gift voted by stockholders of one corporation to employes of an other corporation, part of whose assets the first corporation had acquired but whose stock had been sold to a third party. Since the employes in question did not work for the stockholders who voted them money, the Court held that the money could not be considered a payment for services...
...TIME err in saying that Samuel Goldwyn was never associated with M-G-M (TIME, Nov. 15, p. 42) ? According to The Great Goldwyn by Alva Johnston, Goldwyn was once a part of MGM. Evidently this must be correct for rumor has it that Goldwyn bought 5,000 copies [of this book...
...TIME is correct my sincere apologies for wrongly accusing, but will TIME explain the Goldwyn name appearing in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject for witticism, forgot himself (unless my ears and memory have deceived me) and in the heat of a campaign address employed the correct pronunciation. But only momentarily. On the other hand, too close attention to details of pronunciation might have a tendency to detract from the speaker's effectiveness...
...TIME'S printer, no fall guy, a mild rebuke for manhandling correct copy...