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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 25 you have published a slanderous story and coupled my name with it, which is absolutely false. I can only conclude that you are thinking of one Pat Smith of Bridgeport, Conn., who has had the audacity to use my name and of whom I know nothing except what the newspapers report. There is absolutely no connection between him and my family, and so far as I know he is not a Gipsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...then he adds, "from there to Sterling, Colorado or New Rochelle, N. Y." Why that "or"? Billy ought to know whether he is really heading for New Rochelle (within 17 miles of New York City) or for a place 2,000 miles west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Manufacturer Leach replied: ". . . The Glenwood product advertising is placed through an agency and I know nothing about it. We have followed the same procedure in placing Glenwood goods advertising as we have in the past." He said his advertising agent had evidently been "very silly" and that he had "vigorously called him to account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...This does not mean the remotest intention on my part of abandoning civic duties nor retirement from the life of struggle and responsibility which are the lot of every soldier. I know there are plenty of situations in the military, administrative, political, or civic field which I can occupy and which no matter how modest they may seem in comparison with the Presidency I now hold . . . could give me opportunity to discharge my duties as a man of the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Most Solemn Hour! | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...based on my conviction that admitting into Congress representatives from reactionary groups, even from clerical reactionaries should not alarm true revolutionaries,* because if we all have faith, as I have, that our new ideas are now shared by the great majority of the Mexican people . . .then we must know that the electoral districts in which political or clerical reactionaries might obtain a victory over men representing the advanced social movement in Mexico must be for a long time to come in the minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Most Solemn Hour! | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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