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Believing that you would not wilfully misinterpret, may I call [the following] to your attention in this week's TIME: You refer to the "President's curt speech" heard by a "tobacco-chewing crowd," etc. The crowd was NOT tobacco-chewing, and it applauded the speech. The honor of the President's visit was thoroughly appreciated. Many of the 50,000 crowd had motored miles that morning to be present and to see the President. Brenau College students and faculty in the foreground can attest what I say. President Pearce of Brenau College praised the speech without...
...part of the South's economic difficulties to old-fashioned feudalism, added that: "When you come down to it, there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system. If you believe in the one you lean to the other." Reaction to the President's curt speech by a tobacco-chewing crowd which had expected a few congratulatory truisms was one of silent, hurt amazement. Next day, it was echoed by the Southern press, by which time the President was in a fairly snappish mood himself...
...legal language, what this amounted to was de facto recognition of Hitler's coup, which was far from equivalent to de jure approval. With his official announcement, Mr. Hull gave out a curt statement: "The extent to which the Austrian incident . . . is calculated to endanger the maintenance of peace and the preservation of principles in which this Government believes is of course a matter of serious concern to the Government. . . ." And two days earlier, following Messrs. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini in one of the most extraordinary series of statements of international policies on record, he had clearly if somewhat...
...seems wholly unfitting in presenting so curt and terse a description of a man whose whole life was devoted and sacrificed to the happiness and welfare of young boys, that TIME should attempt to destroy with one malicious and ill-chosen word the work and efforts of a lifetime of such an outstanding public servant, both as friend and clergyman...
...been Richard Whitney who had led the Stock Exchange's long and losing fight against Government regula-ions-wrongly, according to some, gallantly according to all. Yet the curt Stock Exchange announcement declared last week that there was "evidence" that this Groton-bred Harvard man's company had been guilty of "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." The Street promptly cracked in its usual savage humor that "Snow White had become a Dwarf...