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Upon returning from a rather lengthy sojourn abroad in the South Seas, I find one of the brightest little papers it has been my pleasure to read, and I hasten to congratulate you and your colleagues upon the production of TIME...
...have just read TIME, Feb. 14, and hasten to correct what might be taken as the wrong impression of our attitude toward farming. I do not believe that farming is "obsolescent foolishness," neither do I think, nor have ever said that the farmer "ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...
...Quaker who has helped to put down 22 revolutions in his day, and later fought to make of Philadelphia a "dry" metropolis. This respected paladin from Pennsylvania is of course Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. Last week the War Department ordered General Butler to hasten to Shanghai and there take command of the 3,000 U. S. marines who may soon be fighting a modern Boxer Campaign...
...first sign of open water one of the class launches was equipped with sheet iron strips and driven about in such a way as to hasten the opening of the channel. The ice is still eight or ten inches thick but so weakened that the armored launch encountered no particular difficulty in its work. Although there are still isolated blocks, the channel is clear...
...Hand. A long coded radio from Vice Admiral Charles S. Williams to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg caused that statesman abruptly to change his mind as follows: He had instructed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U. S. Minister at Peking, to hasten to Washington, hoping to delay action in the China crisis while he was in transit. Mr. MacMurray had duly set sail but when he reached Seoul, Korea last week, he was ordered back to Peking, went...