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...Miss Marion Lloyd in the final bout," said the announcer at the national women's fencing championship last week. The people in the boxes of the grand ballroom at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan smiled understandingly. They knew that the announcement was technically incorrect-a defeat for Miss Mayer would mean a fence-off-but they knew also that a defeat for Miss Mayer was highly improbable. A 23-year-old from Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, she was indisputably the best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when she was defeated...
...your account of the coronation of Henry Pu Yi, you made a statement which I believe to be incorrect. You stated that this young man is the son of a nephew of the old Dowager Empress...
...think it is only proper that I should point out that there are no less than eight mistakes in the article. It would seem that your correspondent in order to get a good title to the article altered the facts, or at any rate, made use of various incorrect reports in the London papers...
...Earl and Countess of Athlone probably will not have time to take pot luck with the citizens at the New York municipal handout stations, but that is just as well, as it might tend to give them an incorrect impression of life in the United States...
...have no warmer friend than Mr. Cummings. The statement in your issue is absolutely incorrect. Mr. Cummings and I got along together without the slightest misunderstanding in the handling of very difficult problems. In fact, I protested against his leaving the chairmanship of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. It will interest you to know that when I first suggested to Mr. Cummings that he accept the chairmanship, he declined and said that he was anxious to get back to his business...