Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad an experience as a journalist and as wide an acquaintance among newspaper men. He knows at first hand all phases of American life; he has, too, a historical background against which to view the present scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which he could compose an editorial that would entertain the chicle-chewing rag, tag and bobtail, happened upon Mr. Seitz's article, and the Outlook's comment upon Mr. Seitz. He noted with joy that Mr. Seitz had offered criticism on some of the more unfortunate elements...
...most other legislations in Washington, from a compromise standpoint. The tax hill which has recently passed the House of Representatives, seems to me to be a relatively good one and should be passed in substantially that form. That does not mean that I am in favor of every item in it or that any other man may be, but it is a better law than the one which is now in force...
Your comments on "Questions & Answers" (RUSSIA, p. 13, Dec. 28 issue) are so disingenuous as to make one wonder if sometimes you may not distort the news to suit your purposes. Making a headline that utterly belies the contents of a news-item is an old trick in dishonest journalism. Who, outside of an editor of TIME, could consider the answers that Tchitcherin gave to the questions put before him anything but the essence of frankness, openness and the very opposite of "Machiavellian?" What could be less diplomatic than the answer to the second question, which says in effect...
...elapsed between the last appearance of Hesperus in the west and the first appearance of Phosphorus in the east and that the morning of this first appearance in the east was a morning to be feared, since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among the Mayas, their calendar, as recently explained and harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced by the Peabody Museum two years...
...Your item entitled "At Rome," Dec. 28 issue, p. 18, causes me to take back the credit I gave TIME and list it as an uncalled for agitation of literature or as the saying goes, good for one?bad for another...