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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until further notice, copies of the Letters Supplement (an overflow of comment, controversy, correction and information) will be sent free to all who ask. For extra copies the charge will be 5?each, plus postage. Address I. Van Meter, Editorial Secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd St., New York City. The Letters Supplement mailing list to date...
...Sandino. He dismissed all the married men in his army and went to the hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly 1,000 of his followers, reported him dead a score...
...eight years fun-loving Prince George has held the humble rank of lieutenant in the British Navy. As a reward for good intentions and hard work the Admiralty last week sent him an extra gold stripe for his cuff, made him a Commander...
...members.* The most anonymous news service in the world, it never receives credit in print, never gives or gets a byline. Often City News merely supplements what a newspaper's own man gathers by himself. Without it, however, each paper would have to hire 12 or 15 extra legmen, could never send large staffs out of town on big stories. In a pinch, a Manhattan editor could get out a presentable paper with only City News and a couple of good rewrite...
During the bull market American Telephone & Telegraph paid no extra dividends, split no stock, put all its extra earnings into surplus. By 1932 that surplus was big enough to have paid each & every stockholder $31. That year, when A. T. & T. and affiliates earned only $5.96, President Walter Gifford took $58,000,000 out of surplus, paid his 700,000 stockholders the customary $9 dividend...