Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I want to correct what seems to me the wrong impression, conveyed in your article "Airports" on p. 44 of TIME, April 29: "But the English air lines provide comfortable automobiles between airport and metropolis...
...attention has been called to an article on p. 56 of the April 22 issue of your magazine. Without a word of disparagement for chorus girls, I wish to correct the statement made regarding me. I have never been a member of Mr. Ziegfeld's chorus or of any other producer's. I was, however, a principal in four Ziegfeld productions, a featured performer in Arthur Hammerstein's Golden Dawn, and the leading ingénue in the same producer's Good Boy earlier in the season, when I left to again be under Mr. Ziegfeld...
...mostly British, without the loss of a single life. True, the Emden sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...
Sirs: I want to correct what seemed to me the wrong impression conveyed by your footnote on Senator Smoot, p. 12 (TIME, April 8). As a student of government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred...
...Soviet Regime he is tolerated. When he presumes to act as an agent for the paper which employs him, maintains his office, pays his expenses and pays his cable charges, when he attempts to be faithful with his readers, he is persona non grata. If he does not correct his course at official suggestion he is invited to leave the country. In the future all our reports from Russia will come from agents sent to the country on special assignments...