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...Hartford, Conn., one Wesley B. Porter, 66, for 25 years Town Auditor (Republican), ran last week for reelection. "Good old Porter," said the citizens, elected him as usual, went to his house to inform him of the event, found crêpe on the door. Auditor Porter had died the night before...
TIME is ever welcome and almost an unalloyed delight, and altogether indispensible. But it would seem if your magazine is to inform the busy man, then the use of simple current English, so far as possible, should be the constant rule. I come across in the issue of Aug. 24, Page 18, Column 2 a very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek...
...True to my line of policy in the Reichstag, I have the honor to inform you that I withdraw from the Centrist party and in the future will consider myself representing the Republican and Socialist wing...
...Jews in Poland, the Jewish Party, representing one of the most important minorities, agreed to end its resistance to the Polish State and to take its place in the Chamber of Deputies as a Polish Party whose members are first Polish citizens. Furthermore, the Party agreed to inform "those interested abroad" that the Polish Government is meeting Jewish demands. This will, it was said, necessitate a visit by Deputy Reich to the U. S. in the autumn...
...expedition to Baffin Land, his most important discovery being the presence of vast coal beds in the far north. It was partly because of such deposits, partly because of the possible commercial value of airplane depots, that MacMillan, last week, asked the U. S. State Department to inform him what attitude the Government might take toward any unmapped territory he might discover north and west of Ellesmere Land...