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...recite it. Recently I saw that Battle Creek subscriber-resident, and he told me of the occurrence and the use that was put to the "Plan." Also, he has secured a number of copies of the real "The Perpetual Prosperity Plan," which may be used to better inform such as may be interested in the Battle Creek Congressional district. Smart readers of the "Perpetual Prosperity Plan" will recognize it as satire. About the other type of reader it makes little difference. I wrote and published the "Plan" last June as a josh. Perhaps it may be good politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Upon being told by the nearest British civil servant, he exclaimed, "Indeed! Do you actually inform me that that is the inkstand of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? I am accustomed to a silver and crystal inkstand. This appears to be of braass and glaass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Headaches After Holiday | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile Soviet news organs also slued completely around to inform Moscovites that persons who oppose Christmas trees are no longer the virtuous Old Bolsheviks and the stern Heroes of the Revolution they were fortnight ago, but are now despicable "Leftwing oppositionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Grandfather Frost | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...dental profession wonders where the author of the following lines, ''like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient" (TIME, Dec 23, p 26) has his dental work done. Let me inform him that modern scientific methods have eliminated all pain during the operation of extraction. These nasty unfavorable comments, which the author seemingly takes absolutely unjustifiable inasmuch as they are untruthful and have a detrimental influence on the innocent reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...pass a bill embodying the Townsend Plan at the coining session? Yes. . . . No. ... In the issue of The National Townsend Weekly of Dec. 30 we will publish either your answer to this questionnaire or that you failed to answer. Please be assured that we desire only to correctly inform our followers of your attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Pensions' Progress | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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