Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This letter sounds purely destructive; actually it is meant to be provocative, is deliberately general and invites reply. It is astonishing that in the last four years, there has not been (to my knowledge) a single editorial or article of any profundity in a college publication on the subject of education...
...From the letter of John Wulsin '42 published in the Boston Herald...
...said afterward that the lengthy speech of Neville Chamberlain seemed to many of them to be trending toward a declaration of war, then suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a personal letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer. This Mussolini did. "In response," said Mr. Chamberlain, "Herr Hitler has agreed to postpone mobilization for twenty-four hours. Whatever views the honorable members have had about Signor Mussolini in the past, I believe every one will welcome his gesture of being willing to work with us for peace in Europe...
...previous series, Reporter Clifford Blackburn did most of the heavy work, bore down especially hard on WPA loafing and "incompetence." Last week the Tribune printed an editorial acknowledging "compliments" from letter-writers on its WPArticles, but nowhere in its columns appeared any reference to the week's biggest news about its series...
...DeWitt McKinley Emery-6 ft. 6 in. When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided to go ahead with his own plans. Last week as Mr. Emery's National Small Business Men's Association finally...