Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing this to inform you that the correspondence which the Senator had with the Secretary of Commerce, Hon. Herbert Hoover [it concerned segregation of Negroes], was given to the press by me without his knowledge or consent. Likewise, this letter is being written by me without his knowledge or consent...
Will you kindly forward to Mr. E. B. Weston, Dayton, Ohio (as you have his address), my sincere thanks for his letter to you, published in the April 30 issue of TIME, where he gives you a well merited thrashing for your bad taste in publishing uninteresting scandal about two unimportant boys just because they happen to have a prominent father,* and then call it "National Affairs"! Fi Done...
Perceiving the obvious, Candidate Walsh wrote a polite letter to his campaign manager terminating his candidacy. He referred to the "futility" of any man opposing Candidate Smith. Candidate Reed was less polite, more stubborn. He said he only wished Mr. Walsh had withdrawn "before he muddied the water." Candidate Reed pictured himself as "a General in a war" and said he would not surrender because he had lost a "skirmish." He men tioned "great issues" and said: "The convention at Houston will at least have a chance to vote on them...
Such a move has its definite advantages. The lesser teams have an undeniable right to the letter even though they may not be as prominent as the former "major" sports. The man on the small team may work harder even than the star athlete for the glory of his college, and his work should perhaps be as much recognized as that of his more famous brother...
...other hand, the field of competition in the smaller sports is vastly less, and the man who enters the small field has a far greater chance of making the team and hence earning a letter equivalent to the major. If it were not for the qualification of the size, this disadvantage would be such as to make the move an exceedingly unwise one. But Dartmouth distinguishes the value of the sport by giving the football man a seven inch "D", baseball, track, hockey, and basketball men a six inch "D", and the men of other sports a five inch...