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...such careless statements as you made in your recent [Aug. 24] article on the joint campaigning of Senatorial candidates. Your statements and inferences on the importance of the Nigger and Republican vote are quite correct as evidenced by the total vote of less than 2,000 for Mr. Hoover in 1932. You are surprisingly fair, for a Yankee publication, when you point out that some Niggers do vote and thus infer that none are denied the franchise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Gerold C. Wichmann, that "U. S. War Veterans should cordially dislike President Franklin D. Roosevelt," then you are not giving your readers a true reflection of a cross-section of how most of the service men of the World War really feel toward the one man who prevented the Hoover Revolution-who makes it possible, today, for you to operate without having a brick or two thrown through your plate-glass windows by hungry and desperate men-who has removed the galling harness of the "noble experiment" from the body politic of an exasperated people -whose keen vision and unbending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Gerold C. Wichmann, in TIME, quotes Legion National Commander Johnson as follows: "The Bonus is not an issue." He adds that the two vetoes are. Why stop at two? We have the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover vetoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Last week Jungo citizens were telling all-comers of a cash offer made by Mr. Hoover; of $1,000,000 for a half-interest offered by John J. Raskob, who arrived at s Jungo in a private railroad car; of $3,-' 500,000 offered by Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, Ltd. Against these fabulous bids were two authentic offers of $250,000 cash. In addition to Mr. Hanna's claims, Nevada's one U. S. Representative James G. Scrugham (pronounced "Screw-gum"), onetime dean of the University of Nevada's Engineering College, was so im-pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jungo's Jumbo | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...seeking in Denver was Bryan Untiedt, 18, whom Herbert Hoover in vited to the White House as the boy hero who saved the lives of 16 schoolmates marooned in a bus during a Colorado blizzard five years ago (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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