Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Malone of Smithfield, Pa. received a letter last month identifying him as WPA Worker No. 4426-38632 and assigning him to work on a local road project. His parents, on relief, did nothing about it; obviously it was a clerical error. When Richard received another letter, firing him from the job for failure to report, his brother Albert, 20, went to WPA headquarters, explained that Richard, aged 7, was in the second grade. WPA headquarters then cut the Malone family off relief. At length Brother Albert got himself certified as the "priority worker" of the family and was awarded...
...Clyde Tingley, TIME'S deepest apologies for an inexcusably careless error...
Published this week by FORTUNE are the full results of its extraordinary survey on the popularity of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4, 1937, et ante). Using the same scientific sampling of the electorate which predicted the results of the 1936 election with an error of less than i%, FORTUNE presents a page of charts and statistics giving a balance sheet of Franklin Roosevelt's popularity-probably a more complete, objective picture of the basic political situation in the U. S. than has ever been drawn up. Its prime facts...
Sirs: I wish to thank you for the excellently written account of my soaring flight from Wichita Falls, Tex. to Tulsa, Okla., setting a new American distance record [TIME, May 2]. I am bound, however, to point out one error...
This is an error. Mr. Poor's painting The Disappointed Fisherman is one of the 119 pictures by 90 contemporary American artists shown in the exhibition...