Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let Subscriber White turn again to TIME'S account of Mrs. Brookins' ejection and read the footnote: "This is one version of Mrs. Brookins' utterances. The other is that Mrs. Brookins was mannerly; that the conductor was loud, vulgar, abusive...
...years ago. For, in telling of the ejection of Mrs. Blanche S. Brookins, a colored woman of culture and intelligence and an interstate passenger, from a Pullman car in Florida, TIME says: "They (the passengers) heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: 'Yoh all let me 'lone yoh whaht trash. I gotta ticket!' " Knowing Mrs. Brookins and her family, having attended college with her cousin, a prominent Negro physician of Florida, such would-be cleverness is painful to the point of bordering on nausea. Perhaps TIME could well do a little house cleaning...
...quickly: "Not one of the Churches referred to has any work in Turkey The Congregational Church, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and Near East Colleges are the only organizations in this field. . . . All assertions in body of statement are so misleading and misconstrued that we cannot let them go unchallenged in view ot prominence of men involved. Legitimate American interests are protected by treaty, and moral obligations can be discharged more effectively by America after diplomatic relations are resumed Those that signed this statement were important representatives ot these bodies: Cleveland E. Dodge, John R. Mott, James...
...came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness! . . . He refused to shut up his brewery. He would not let any man leave him until the man had a new job. The old brewers, who like him would rather have lost money than mixed their materials with dirty city water, who were proud of their lager, and who had grown fat and raised families, these men George Ehret set to work making...
Heny Miller, West 43d St.--Here is a good place to spend an enjoyable evening. But, don't let the title fool you. Holbrook Blinn's the thing...