Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Insolent Clerks Sirs: I am a subscriber since 1923 at Panama, C. Z. I have always abstained from writing letters that more or less annoy you besides taking up space in your glorious magazine. But the culmination of rage sizzles for expression within me. On p. 14, Oct. 1, issue in third column, under caption "Relief" appears: 1,200 tons of food 3,490 tons of misc. supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people...
...England visit?the depression, in the textile industry. Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result in a flood of foreign textile products which would mean no less than ruin to New England industry, both manufacturers and workmen...
This other, less nationally known La-Follette brother is a young man to whom Wisconsin voters point with prophecy and pride every time there is an election. After LaFollette Sr.'s death, and again last spring, they said that Phil LaFollette would run for Governor. This year, at least, it was real "draft" talk. But he did not let it get very far. He insisted that he was "too young." (He is 31, two years younger than the Youngest Senator.) He wanted to go on with his teaching and his law practice. It was for that...
Temperamentally, too, the father is more present in his younger son. Brother Phil is the artist, Brother Bob the scientist, of politico-social activity. Both are intense, but in Brother Phil the intensity is more apparent. He is less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When they were children, their oldest sister, Fola LaFollette, found small Robert sitting gloomily on the porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they...
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was observed to treat a certain Correspondent Carlisle MacDonald with less coldness than anyone else who covered him in Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...