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Your recent comment on the Anti-Saloon League Convention at St. Louis [TIME, Dec. 16] was curt, clear, but incomplete and incorrect...
...Glasoe and numerous others who have not previously spoken at our national conventions. In a way TIME is right in suggesting that new ideas and new faces are necessary. The new ideas developed by the Anti-Saloon League and the new faces appearing in its councils, contrary to your curt report, will be effective in a new advance against alcohol. But, the greatest change will be brought about by the multitude of voters who will get new and correct ideas about the liquor traffic from personal observations with the result that new faces will appear in State and National Capitols...
Nominations are open for Man of the Year, whose picture will appear on the cover of TIME, Jan. 6, 1936. Let readers state their choices, give clear, curt, concise reasons.-ED. Razor Research
...editors of TIME, hearty thanks for the articles in the Nov. 18 issue on "To the Fair Isle" and "An Average American." Perhaps if our high-school history texts had been written in the "curt, clear, complete" form of "To the Fair Isle," the American average of "average Americans" would have been raised...
...against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police of the International Settlement that the Japanese marine's uncaught murderer seems also to have been wearing a Japanese marine uniform...