Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington and a luncheon at the White House while Mrs. Roosevelt was away on a lecture tour, he set off for Washington to persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing. By this time, he had informed the U. S. that the correct way to address the couple-whom he punctiliously avoided calling by name, referred to them as "my friends...
...TIME, July 19, mention was made that the late Amelia Earhart was the first person to fly an autogiro across the continent (U.S.). Please permit me to correct you on this, as I was the first one to do so. My flight started at Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia, on May 14, 1931 and ended at San Diego (North Island Naval Air Station) on May 28, 1931, after a leisurely flight stopping at several cities for demonstrations, etc. My autogiro (a Pitcairn 330 h. p. model) was the first ever seen west of the Mississippi River...
Literally you are correct in your article "Laborers Together" (TIME, Oct. 11, p. 45) referring to "calms" in the stained glass industry- Yea verily-"calms" have been distressingly all too numerous during the last seven long years...
...writing to you to correct some details in your report of the end of the Al Brady gang [TIME...
When each Spring the Senior Album appears there are always those members of the graduating class, a considerable number of them, who, to put it mildly, are surprised to see what they look like. More properly they are surly, for they believe, and often they are correct, that their pictures in the book are poor ones and don't look like them...