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Your reference about my conviction is apt to give an incorrect impression. It is a fact that I was for several years engaged as a geologist to find potential oil fields in Wyoming. The acreage thus acquired was placed into a developing company, which is today a highly successful corporation, bearing my name. It is a fact that I entered Texas in the boom days at the end of the war. It is a fact that I was tried and convicted for overstating potential values in prospective oil fields. It is a fact that I was sent to prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...According to Director John Oppie McCall results on five children were "good," on three "fair," on two "not good." Some private patients made news by claiming that they got no relief whatever from Hartman's Solution. Two possible explanations: 1) compounds prepared by volume instead of weight; 2) incorrect application by the dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dental Pain Preventer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Your recent comment on the Anti-Saloon League Convention at St. Louis [TIME, Dec. 16] was curt, clear, but incomplete and incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...high-pressure advertising and sales promotion activities of the liquor interests. Your implication that because former leaders in the anti-liquor fight like Cannon and McBride are still loyal to their convictions no new leaders are joining in the fight against intolerable conditions caused by alcohol is entirely incorrect. On our program this year we had noted men like Charles W. Bryan, Dr. John R. Sampey, Dr. P. M. Glasoe and numerous others who have not previously spoken at our national conventions. In a way TIME is right in suggesting that new ideas and new faces are necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...produced. This means the cultural and technical level of the working class is sufficiently high to wipe out the contradictions between mental and physical labor. "Those who think the difference between mental and physical labor can be eliminated by lowering the technical level of engineers and technicians are absolutely incorrect. Only petty bourgeois jabberers can think this about Communism." These words, perfectly unintelligible to millions of proletarians, held the most profound interest this week for the world's makers of Revolution. Most of them have been told and have told the masses that already in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Heroes of Labor | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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