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Last week the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously answered a four-year-old question: Was there fraud in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to Edward L. Doheny? The answer...
...being intelligent enough to take a line of his own. Mr. Sever takes after orthodox so-called intelligentsia in hating the radio, elk's teeth, white socks, camels, and above all, what passes in the middle-class moving picture for humour. Cinema humour is atavistic; it goes back to the primeval source--cruelty. And it gets results. While Emerson and Appleby with growing displeasure watched a pitiful creature fall down stairs and get hit over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down...
...House: four stories, marble, Italian architecture, 30 rooms. A Gobelin tapestry 25 x 10 feet depicts a hunting scene. The marble stairway is lined with heads of caribou, deer, elk, mountain goats, mountain lions killed by?...
...error. Calvin Coolidge became a member of the college fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta at Amherst College. His Secretary should have said that he is not a Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Woodman...
Sirs: TIME is unusual. In your Jan. 10 issue, under heading of "Elk City, Okla.," p. 4, col. 3, you refer to Letter Carriers, which is the proper designation of the men of Uncle Sam who deliver the U.S. mail. Invariably, the Press and the Public refer to them as mailmen or postmen, which is highly improper. . . . Frank Crane . . . recently eulogized the Letter Carrier and referred to them as mailmen rather than Letter Carriers. . . . A mighty small thing, yet I believe every Letter Carrier appreciates being referred to as a Letter Carrier. Thanks to TIME for setting a precedent. BURT...