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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please do not think I am trying to pick a fight, I just want to condemn the general tone and contents of Henderson's letter as an unpatriotic utterance and say that there is no glory in patting a wife and mother on the back and saying: "Your son or husband died a hero." That does not bring them back. What good would it do for Coolidge to take a flight? He's not seeking publicity. He does not need it. He's known and loved throughout the world and I say this although...
...wondering if you will have the courage to publish this letter in your next issue of TIME together with an apology for publishing the article to which I have alluded. I shall look with interest, and should I fail to find a satisfactory explanation for the "lapse," I shall see to it that the matter is otherwise broadcast, but without doing further violence to an already humiliated father and his two sons...
...Embarrassed by the Coolidge-Anyway movement, which last week cropped out right in his home State, President Coolidge issued further words on the subject, this time signing the letter himself instead of leaving it to Secretary Everett Sanders, as he did in March when Wyoming was importunate...
...received a letter from Charles W. Tillett, a political commentator of Charlotte, who wrote: "I have said many good things concerning you and I wish to determine, after seeing you, whether I can, like the Queen of Sheba, say the half has not been told, or whether I must repeat what Uncle Eph said to me the other day when I got after him about an extravagant statement he had made: 'Boss, I jest over-spoke myself.' " Candidate Smith wired back: "Will be delighted to see you . . . in the matter of Queen of Sheba versus Uncle...
Though it thus appeared that Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw may not always have been first in her husband's affections, she good humoredly ignored his Butt-letter last week. Friends found her more interested in recounting the details of a holiday which the Shaws have just taken at Llangollen, in Wales, where they sojourned in a suite of rooms once occupied by Poet Robert Browning. At present international interest in G. B. S. centers upon his forthcoming book, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism which will be published on or about June...