Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In TIME, July 1, under the heading of Religion, p. 21, appeared a more accurate account of Swedenborg and the New Church than usually appears in the public press. . . . I must call your attention, in the interest of accurate reporting, to one essential error. You stated that in 1890 "some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members...
...president and later chairman of the system. Mr. Hopson, shrewd mathematician, invented many complicated kinds of securities for sale to the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Associated Gas & Electric Co. has or has had (the system changes so often that A. G. E. can generally catch in error anybody who ventures to describe it) three classes of common stock, six classes of preferred, four classes of preference stock, seven issues of secured bonds and notes, 24 classes of debentures, and four series of investment certificates...
...President Downs, apologies for a regrettable printer's error...
...special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over, Joe Louis gave out a detailed apology for his error: "I missed him in my round so I thought I might as well get him in his." Joe Louis' next fight, scheduled as a warm-up for his bout with Schmeling, will be against King Levinsky in Chicago next month...
That is true. Gough, in 30 days, lost 48½ Ib. and reduced his waistline 9¼ in. In error, TIME stated he ''guzzled 1,080 steins of beer." Really he drank ten 11-ounce bottles per day or a total of 412 average table or 8-ounce glasses, which is much less beer than you reported...