Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME dated June 28th, you published a statement which I regard as a great injustice to a most capable Washington reporter and writer. I refer to the reference you made to Eugene Kelly, writer for the Universal Service. The objectionable reference to Mr. Kelly is as follows...
...Your June 28 cover and article under "Milestones" raises the question as to the correct spelling of duPont. On the cover you spell it with a small "d" but in the article it is spelled with both a small "d" and capital "D." The daily press, notorious for inaccuracy, almost without exception uses the upper case...
Presuming that a man spells his own name correctly on his stationery, it may interest you to know that on the die-stamped letterhead of Mr. P. S. duPont the name appears in all capitals, with the "du" slightly smaller just as TIME used it on the June 28 cover...
...these shallows live salt water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped to fishermen in other States. In the last five or six years Maine's worm business has grown by leaps & bounds until this summer...
Last week the following were news: To succeed the late George Fisher Baker (TIME, June 7), the directors of Manhattan's rock-ribbed ($674,142,930) First National Bank elected as their new chairman stalwart, sloe-eyed Jackson...