Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note a letter from a Virginia reader [James L. Milstead] in your March 19 issue in regard to the article mentioned that "riles" me considerably...
Mayor John C. Lodge, of Detroit, recently issued a proclamation calling for Aviation Week this year to be set April 14-20 and at the same in time suggested that other localities join Detroit in observing this that week. He agreed with me in a recent letter that the week beginning May 20 would then include the date of the most heroic feat of our day#151;Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...President Coolidge sent an answer to Wyoming, in a certain way. He told his secretary what to say, and let the secretary sign the letter. This procedure, after "I do not choose" (August) and "My wishes will be respected" (December), seemed intended to show that the Everlasting Nay had now become a matter of office routine. Secretary Sanders wrote: "The President directs me to say that he must decline to grant the request of the committee...
...basis of Senator Nye's "understanding" about a Smith-Sinclair relation turned out to be a letter he had just received from a casual Manhattan newsgatherer, one Charles T. White, who was forthwith discharged by his employers on the Republican New York Herald-Tribune. Records showed that Sinclair had never contributed to a Smith campaign fund, though in 1918 he gave $1,000 to New York County Democrats. In 1920, four years before the Oil Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought...
...examination has been so obscured by invective and the attempt to be humorous on the part of the various commentators on the merits and defects of the said examination. Slightly varying the words of Dr. Johnson, "They have been carried away by the exhuberance of their own verbosity." The letter of "J. Prendergast Elliott" is no more Billingsgate than the last, wherein the previous writers are anathematized as asses. It is regrettable for the reason that the issues raised touch the fundamentals of the Harvard educational policy, and a little more intelligent discussion and less mutual recrimination would throw more...