Word: junes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 17 issue of TIME you give a list of people who have received honorary degrees at various institutions of learning at Commencement time this year. Among them is the name of Lou Henry Hoover who received a degree from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
Sirs: In these days of much ado about Farm Relief, you may be interested in what the Guernsey breeders have to say about it. In their picnic at River Falls, Wis., on June 4 as you will note on the attached sheet, they sang to the good old tune "I've been working on the railroad" the lines on the enclosure. May I suggest as a headline, "Udder Nonsense...
Sirs: In your June 3 number appeared a letter from Mr. John M. Vorys, Columbus, Ohio, giving a description of official decapitation by the sword in China...
...retort to the work of fashionable Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin of Manhattan and other founders of the new Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark...
Indignation over promiscuous shooting even spread last week to the enforcement army itself. U. S. Customs Agent Louis H. Jacques, son of a Detroit police sergeant, was in command of Agent Jonah Cox, killer of Archibald Eugster after a rum chase last fortnight (TIME, June 24). He had warned Agent Cox to "go easy with the gun" on previous occasions, had filed a report censuring his reckless misuse of firearms. When Eugster was shot, Agent Jacques remarked that his complaint against Cox had been borne out, whereupon he was reprimanded by his superior for discussing the case. Last week...