Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME rarely prints an anonymous or unsigned letter...
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, disappeared last week. He was heard of in Shanghai, where he was suffering and recovering from a slight nervous breakdown and bronchitis. Before he disappeared, he wrote a letter to his physician, as follows: "I came to China seeking peace and quiet and hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying...
...strangest pieces of mail which Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the U. S. Vice-President-Reject, has ever received, was a letter which he gleefully showed to colleagues last week. The letter warmly, sincerely, personally thanked Mr. Robinson for "the cordial support you gave me in the campaign." It was signed by Charles Curtis, the Vice-President-Elect. Senator Curtis laughed as hard as anyone. No one in the Senate needed to be told how it is that such slips occur when one answers each & every one of one's congratulaters after an election by warm, sincere, personal form-letters...
...Patrick Cardinal Hayes in a pastoral letter to his flock...
...known that C. C. Kerr & Co., of the New York Curb Market were offering for sale 250,000 shares of common stock priced at $10 a share in the Jenkins Television Corp. (total capitalization $10,000,000). The purpose of the Jenkins Television Corp., as expressed in a letter written by President James W. Garside, was to "transmit or broadcast television pictures and programs; to transmit photographs ... to engage in the broad development, exploitation and sale of television and image transmitting apparatus. . . ." The advertisement pointed out that the development of television so far has paralleled that of the early development...