Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing in your Aug. 7 edition of TIME, in the Aeronautics division, is an article stating that it takes 10 hr. of hard driving to drive from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe. I wish to correct that statement...
...broadcast throughout Cuba from a pirate radio station: "Make these August strikes the August Revolution!" Ambassador Welles, after keeping completely mum through a long series of conferences with President Machado, finally said, "The situation is so grave that it is impossible to forecast what may develop." Ambassador Welles was correct. Few days later on a false rumor that President Machado had resigned, all Havana went wild with joy. Huge crowds poured into the streets in celebration. The police poured lead into the crowds. Dozens were killed, some around the capitol, some near the President's Palace, some before Sloppy...
...Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates uprose to say that No. 534 "had survived all sorts of criticism. The theory and design of the ship are correct. The ship is the right size; therefore her new dock is right...
...reports were correct, cash looked better than a railroad too to Leonor Fresnel Loree who last year bought for his rich little Delaware & Hudson 500,000 shares of New York Central at an average of $20 a share. Before the July Crash this investment showed a $19,000,000 profit. Wall Street heard last week that canny old Leonor Loree took some of his profits before Central slumped from its high of $58.50 a share to last week's price...
...scandal tainted his administration. Impeachment proceedings were started against four of his six successors, two of whom were removed from office. An attack by President Theodore Roosevelt on his honesty drove Haskell out as Democratic national treasurer. On rechecking, TIME finds its account of Haskell's career substantially correct with the following exceptions: 1) oil promoters did not figure in the Guthrie constitutional convention because in 1906 oil had not yet been extensively developed in Oklahoma; 2) Governor Haskell, on retiring borrowed vacation money not from the State but from private friends; 3) his transfer of the State capital...