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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your letter page is a very, very human document. The authors of these letters form a sort of zoo of every kind of crank. I, too, am one of the cranks, my mania being your magazine. There is nothing so well worth reading as TIME except, of course, the Bible. You will, no doubt, receive some irate letters about the Hobby Horse Article in your Feb. 23 issue. Some will denounce you for over praising-President Coolidge, some for ridiculing him. My private opinion is that the writer of the article has shown unusual insight and justice in his sketch...
...Texas. Recently, the Texas Senate passed an Amnesty Bill to restore this privilege to him. When the Bill got to the House, an opinion as to its legality was asked of the State Attorney General. He ruled that it was contrary to the State Constitution and that that document would have to be amended to "restore" Mr. Ferguson...
...place. It didn't seem to suggest bootlegging, seduction, happiness or any of the few inevitables for which people are supposed to go to cinema. Leave it he did, however, and thereby displayed rare good sense. For the picture, based upon the poem, is a sincere and sensitive document. It depicts the long sea exile of the man who said: "Damn the United States." It is an illustration of one of the sagas of U. S. history, and it deserves a place in everyone's calendar...
...House. Speaker and Mrs. Gillett joined Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge in receiving the guests. C¶ President Coolidge transmitted to the Senate the text of the Paris reparations agreement which had aroused the fears of some Senators that it was an "entanglement" (TiME, Jan. 6, Feb. 2). With the document was a letter from Secretary Hughes explaining that the agreement did not commit the U. S. to enforce the Experts' Plan if Germany should default, that it had nothing of the nature of a treaty, that it was merely an executive agreement whereby the U. S. is to receive...
...grow under a great ordinance for more than a century and a quarter and at the end of that time not be sure what parts of that ordinance mean. Yet such is the case of the U. S. For example, in the case of amendments to the Constitution. That document says that amendments be- come effective when adopted by Congress and "ratified by three-fourths of the States." Apparently rejection does not count; only ratification. But suppose that a state ratifies and then reverses itself?either before or after an amendment has been proclaimed adopted?what effect would such action...