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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME exaggerates the digestive ability of hogs. On April 6 you state that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." This idea was rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs...
Sirs: The criticisms you received were certainly not written by juveniles, and I am definitely opposed to the general idea that all things should be done so that the youngest and most stupid among us should not be hurt. TIME is written by adults for adult minds-by all means keep it that way and permit those who see evil in all things to cancel their subscriptions. You are better off without them. BARNETT DAVIS Pittsburgh...
Thus the sting was drawn from one Republican criticism before it could be drafted into the platform at Cleveland. Lest the extraction of the sting should be missed, the President expounded at his press conference his idea that all big farmers should have their benefit payments restricted...
Amendment. Another idea to excite the conventioneers also began in an editorial. Two days after the Supreme Court denied New York's right to set minimum wages for women workers (TiME, June 8), William Allen White came out in his Emporia Gazette for a platform plank favoring a constitutional amendment to overcome that ban. Clarioned he: "The Supreme Court has honestly even if tragically called our attention to the need of a power in government which now obviously is restricted. That need is the issue of the hour. The Republican convention must not sidestep it. ... The Republican Party must...
Though Messrs. Baker, Douglas & Wolman had chosen the burden of their platform from the current and historic tenets of both major parties, it was soon evident they had pleased neither. No Republican leader spoke up to praise them. On behalf of the Administration, Senator Minton of Indiana sneered: "My idea of a platform would be one to repudiate Newton Baker rather than the New Deal...