Word: curts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)- his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then...
Talkative, easygoing, amiable Premier Herriot thus was seen to have expanded the Cabinet to 18 portfolios, whereas his curt, nervous, kinetic predecessor Andre Tardieu compressed the previous Cabinet to 13 (TIME, March 7). Probably most Frenchmen are vaguely pleased by the change. They nicknamed M. Tardieu somewhat contemptuously L'Americain, mistrusted his go-getting methods, his efficiency scheme of rolling the Ministries of War. Navy and Air into one Ministry of Defense...
Some months ago I became a perpetual subscriber to TIME. Every week now I have a clear, curt, colorful review not only of events in America but also of those in Europe; and the tangle of information and opinion of the European press is drawn into a concise and logical sequence of facts...
...hobbies are fishing and hunting on his Catskill estate. He has three sons, Reinhold, Curt and Julius. One is in the sales department, another in the manufacturing, a third handling finances. They were trained on sheep ranches, in mills abroad, in banks. In memory of a fourth son he established the Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation in 1922. It lends and gives money to apt children of employes. It helps families in sickness, runs a night school for employes and their families. Despite this paternalism, and despite the fact that many Forstmann workers are more skilled, hence higher-paid, than...
Students of Penn State publish the Penn State Froth, clever college comic magazine. Last week appeared the parody number. Those magazines "parodied" included Liberty, True Confessions, Amazing Stories, and TIME. I am sending you the parody page of TIME. I think you will find it "curt, clear, complete...