Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Sirs: I had occasion to read with interest your journal published today (TIME, Dec. 4), and on reading through, I came across a statement which is absolutely incorrect and which will be resented by every Irishman in Ireland. The statement to which I refer is- 'Irish starts with barley but particular Irishmen always drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water." As Chairman of the Board of Directors of one of the large Irish Free State distilleries, and one of the Board of Directors of another Irish Free State distillery, who incidentally...
...statement in yesterday's CRIMSON that William F. Perry '34 would attend the National Students League Convention in Washington on December 26 was incorrect. Griffith B. Washburn '35 will attend the convention...