Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wish-to retract my statements contained in a letter (parts of which were published in your columns) directed against your having a FASHION or STYLE department.t Your handling of this class of material in a recent issue has impelled me to do this...
Philip M. Tucker, the Boston banker who last fortnight started and then obediently stopped a chain-letter boom for the Coolidge renomination (TIME, Dec. 5), could not refrain from say- ing: "The response to the petition sent out by me was like the bursting of a dam which held back the expression of the people looking for some outlet to show their faith in Calvin Coolidge...
...thwacking," "rebuking," "assailing" letter (as headlines called it) to President Lewis Eugene Pierson of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He told Mr. Pierson, who is a banker, that he was surprised by the Chamber's "misconception of facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen...
Devices: To persuade both political parties to stand for a national Prohibition referendum. To send two letters, costing 5c each, to the 27,000,000 citizens who will register to vote next year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting citizens and corporations to contribute in proportion to what they would save per annum if a liquor tax should replace the income tax. Failing a national referendum, to obtain more state referenda...
Professor Holcombe, who expects to make Russia his final goal on his trip in Europe, spoke briefly in his last letter to Professor Elliott of the various points that he had visited, and some of the incidents that befell him on the way. Arriving at Port Said, Professor Holcombe says that there he had made a brief survey of the government, and then proceeded on to Geneva, where he attended the meetings of the league of nations. He expects to make a report later of his observations there. From Geneva, Professor Holcombe said, that he journeyed down through the Balkans...