Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter of Mr. E. P. Holton of Los Angeles [TIME, Sept.11], suggesting that Great Britain grant the United States title to the British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, including all Pacific islands, but excluding the Dominion of Canada, received a favorable vote in this community. I have submitted the proposition to several business and professional men and there has not been a single objection to the proposition...
...letter of Mr. E. P. Holton ... is the idea of a narrow-minded bigot who is never satisfied unless he is sticking his nose in someone else's business. This is the one thing that people in this world need to overcome if we expect any peace in the future. How can anyone suggest a fair payment of a nation's debts by subjecting a small minority of that nation's people to live under another flag and a different form of government...
...letter to the London Times, Alan Patrick Herbert, M.P., Punch contributor, cracked: "Those who supported and may still support Dr. Frank Buchman will no doubt like to be reminded now of one of the Doctor's most profound and famous sayings: 'Thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler who will stand against the anti-Christ of Communism.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant...
...academic calm. Most militantly neutral, but by no means calm, was University of Rochester's young President Alan Valentine (onetime Rhodes scholar). Dr. Valentine wired to Republican Senators a demand that the Neutrality Act be let alone, went on the radio to read to the People a letter to President Roosevelt. Cried he: "Mr. President, is it to be peace...
...first acquaintances in Europe, was once charming, filled with "a deep temperamental life-quality." Her "overweening ego" has now "made her life to my feeling ugly and her human relations and work ridiculous." Gertrude's brother Leo, once her idol, shared his disgust. Said he in a letter to Hapgood: "When Jesus said, 'Verily, verily,' the second verily added much to the expression. But if He had said, 'Verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily,' it wouldn't have been so good...