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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct a misstatement in TIME, Dec. 16, p. 19, concerning the "liar" charge against Major Berry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...TIME, Dec. 2 you again refer to "Catholic Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...notice you often refer to certain people as being "well-born," "blue-blooded," and so on. For instance, in one sentence you speak of ". . . Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan lawyer . . . and Undersecretary Phillips, the Boston blueblood. . . ." [TIME, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...TIME, Dec. 16, under Education, you quote Headmaster Horace D. Taft as saying: "Why should we teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" with reference to initiating a course in milking in Taft School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Freistater of The Bronx, whom the New York City Board of Education considered too fat for a permanent teaching job in the city schools (TIME, Dec. 9 et ante). Described by her father as "big and strong," Rose three months ago had weighed 182 lb., which was 32 Ib. over the Board's limit for 5 ft. 2 in. teachers. Last week, ready for a hearing before the State Commissioner, she weighed in at 154 lb., fully dressed. "She's down to 150 without her clothes," crowed her attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big & Strong (Cont'd) | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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