Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood of letters received since TIME announced its intention of printing one a week from someone who wanted a job would give any reader a liberal education on the unemployment situation among educated people. It has also demonstrated that printing one "free advertisement" a week is unsatisfactory because it gives no impression of the volume of job seekers, and no representative letter can be chosen from such heterogeneous applications-from men and women; from youngsters, young marrieds, middle aged, and oldsters; from chemists, farmers, accountants, writers, executives, secretaries; from people who have had no jobs for years and people with...
...stead. The Board of Trade advised 18,500 E. J. workers to stay out of an A. F. of L. union which was trying to start in their midst. A. F. of L. Organizer Ben Berk promptly complained to the National Labor Relations Board that Endicott Johnson inspired the letter, thereby violating the Wagner Act. When George F.'s visiting friends presumably spoke for themselves last week, NLRB was still investigating Berk's complaint. In the circumstances, wise old George F. confined himself to the business at hand. Said he: "I haven't in my heart...
Loose-tongued Mr. Williams' chief was also on the defensive in the newspapers last week. To the New York Times Harry Hopkins wrote a letter denying that he ever said, as reported by Timesman Arthur Krock and others: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" (TIME, Nov. 21). Timesman Krock replied: "Among those who heard it is a most reputable citizen of New York and, in lighter hours, a playmate of Mr. Hopkins. They were at the Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that...
...Commented the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung on a letter in the New York Daily News signed by Reader Max Rosenberg, who proposed that "professional killers" be freed from U. S. jails and sent to Germany to assassinate the Führer...
...merciful Providence may give it that this letter may be taken well by you as a noble and understanding man and bring us rescue from misery and despair," she concludes in her broken English. The letter was postmarked Nov. 11 from Vienna...