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May I criticize your review of Sequoia (TIME, Feb. 4)? Let me assure you I am a nature lover, but not a fanatic I hope. Our family has spent many happy vacations in the California forests: no one appreciates more their beauty. We hate sentimental twaddle, such as this picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

In his upward climb to Mesta's presidency, Engineer Iversen became a shrewd salesman with all the hitting power of a forging press. Not only can he sell his steelmaking machines to ordinary prospects. At least once he sold a buyer who had already let the contract to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gold & Machines | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Wrote Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune: "The zeal of those promoting the plan is evangelical, almost fanatic. The pressure on Congress is much greater than was ever brought by veterans for the bonus. . . . Promoters of the bill say it is supported by 10,000,000 persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Simple Plan | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Suzy was never a professional. The U. S. niece of a London publican's wife, she went to England to dance in a variety show. When she lost her job she became a decoration around her aunt's bar. For something better to do, she took up with a loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tart of Gold | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Author Boyle, neoRomantic, writes of queer people, queer doings. My Next Bride, her latest, treats of a universal disease that is peculiarly virulent in the U. S.; expatriatitis. None of Author Boyle's characters is quite normal but they all have a normal, mortal longing to go home. Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Romantic | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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