Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Gerry's counsel, I request that you correct this false statement in your publication...
...individual, owe you, an individual member of the Congress, $1,000 payable in 1945, it is not a correct statement for you to tell me that I owe you $1,000 today. As a matter of practical fact, if I put $750 into a Government savings bond today and make that bond out in your name you will get $1,000 on the due date, ten years from now. My debt to you today, therefore, can not under the remotest possibility be considered more than...
...false: "If I weren't in Congress and it would not be undignified to say so, I would say it's lousy." David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, was called to the stand and declared the Cassidy summary "misleading." Comptroller McCarl, also called, said the summary was correct. For climax Representatives May and Maverick all but had a fist fight. Then the Committee took a vote, decided 13-to-12 to table the TVA bill for more power...
...Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring...
...make-up of the paper, and I understand two of them never saw the proof prior to publication. The newspapers and the public have been allowed to assume that the men who have resigned were primarily responsible for the publication of the paper. This letter is written to correct that impression--an impression which is manifestly unfair to certain of the boys concerned. F. Stacy Holmes...