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...South Carolinian by inheritance and don't like to see her slandered by 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 »

Chase National Bank's Assistant Cashier Mary Vail Andress reported that the ratio of investments to loans in Federal Reserve member banks had risen from 44% in 1925 to 150% in 1936. "From my reading of Biblical literature I infer that Eve was created for Adam's express company," observed Miss Andress. "From my readings of financial literature I infer that commercial banks now exist for the express purpose of financing Government deficits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Congress | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...liquidation of the kulaks" for more than two. To the reader's astonished question: Is Stalin, then, not a dictator? the Webbs return a firm No. "The Government of the U.S.S.R. during the past decade has been clearly no better than that of a committee. Our inference is that it has been, in fact, the very opposite of a dictatorship. It has been, as it still is, government by whole series of committees." They explain Stalin's prominence thus: Lenin's death left a fearful hole; "some new personality had to be produced for the hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U.S.S.R. | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...White House newshawks were permitted to infer that Franklin Roosevelt listened by radio to the roasting his one-time friend, Alfred Emanuel Smith, gave the New Deal at the American' Liberty League dinner in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...wish to prevent America's future leaders from drinking any potion that might possibly bring on a rash. The youths, on the other hand, by their preponderant opposition to the Oath, indicate that they want to be taught all there is to know. It is at least logical to infer that this longing includes a desire to understand possible substitutes for capitalistic democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STUDY IN RED AND GREEN | 11/20/1935 | See Source »

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