Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter goes on to show that the report brought by "A. P." was sent out by newsagency. "Avala" which is supported by Belgrad government. Avala had to send what was ordered. . . . They featured Radic as provocateur so that his fame and justness of his cause may be demolished in the eyes of the world. I have every reason to believe that the contents of my letter are true...
...reference to Mr. Townsend's letter in TIME for August 6, I should like to tell the story as I have always heard it-which is that when Mr. Wanamaker was a young man some old friend lent him a certain sum of money to help him start in business on condition that no playing cards should ever be sold in his store...
Nicholas Murray Butler, Wet Republican president of Columbia University and of the Carnegie Endowment Foundation for International Peace, the G. O. P.'s Nominee for the Vice Presidency in 1912, sounded off at great length in a letter to the New York Times. He said he could not put up with Nominee Hoover's position on Peace and Prohibition. He was, he said, confident that "Literally, millions of earnest Republicans" would agree with...
Writer. Richard Halliburton, who writes travel stories with the sprightliness of an old spinster's darling, last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred...
Decoded, it would have read: "Have received no letter from you since June 3rd. Are you all right? Please reply by telegraph. Pancake." The recipient of the cable would have recognized the mysterious Pancake as Carl O. Pancake, assistant secretary of the Guaranty Trust Co., technical delegate to the approaching International Telegraph Conference at Brussels...