Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pomeroy has a notion he deserves a pardon, that he has been punished enough. In 1925 a suffraget daughter of Lucy Stone wrote a newspaper letter against the release of Pomeroy. She charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called...
Buffalo, New York, helped Angora, Turkey, last week in spreading the new gospel of a 31-letter Latinized alphabet which dynamic President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has made obligatory throughout the Turkish Republic (TIME, Sept. 17). The trouble has been to keep the new, distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously...
...Francisco's Call reprinted the letter of Jack-the-Snipper "A. Y. Cooke" (TIME, June...
...Commons. Should the Conservatives be able to daub Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald again with the red brush, his Liberal support would melt away, and his present (second) Cabinet would fall as disastrously as did his first (TIME, Nov. TO, 1924). when Conservatives cried "Red!" and waved the notorious Zinoviev letter...
Months ago the brothers ceased speaking to each other. Last week Lord Kylsant intimated frigidly that on at least one occasion Lord St. Davids had written a letter expressly to inform his brother that he would not speak to him. It was a quarrel de luxe, peer against peer, brother against brother, tycoon against tycoon-over a $10,000,000 technicality...