Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME of March 18, the letter of Eva A. Lindbergh Christie, calls attention to the figures of the Federal Trade Commission in which "1% of the people own 59% of the wealth, 13% own 90% of the wealth and 87% of the people own 10%." Now this 87% includes those who produce the wealth yet they own only one tenth...
...White House last week went Dr. Wu Chao-chu to present to President Hoover his letter of credence as Chinese Minister (Nationalist Government). Dr. Wu expressed his pleasure at finding as President "a statesman who has intimate personal knowledge of China through long residence in the country and close contact with the people." The new Minister's father, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, represented China in Washington before the 1912 revolution...
...story about Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. had been printed not long before (TIME, Feb. 25). Soon Mrs. Christie wrote her thanks to TIME, and the letter too was printed. The press picked it up, sent it broadcast. Editors in far-away cities editorialed. The alert Minneapolis Star sent a pleasant photographer who snapped a very good likeness ?the one used by nearly all the rotogravures...
...this time every tentacle of the press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...
...Note--Large parts of the above letter have been cut as they duplicate the material found, below...