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Sirs : I felt really bad, on reading on p. 38 TIME, April 5, "Psychic Impotence" not only bad but sad, and mean...
Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last. To correspondents Mr. George vigorously declared: "I don't intend to fall! I mean to go forward to complete the great tasks that lie before liberalism...
...politely ignored a Bible Unionist slur: "Mammonism has gained hold of the United States today. It strikes from the legislatures of the states. It rises from the congressional halls and in the Congressional Record. It blackens the family life of a President of the United States [pause]?I mean the Cabinet life."?Dr W. A. Matthews of Los Angeles...
...therefore, we cannot see the means of balancing a salary increase by better efficiency through organization, equipment and the suppression of waste time?if you don't want to admit this possibility?the American automobile will replace the French automobile, and it will be the death of the French automobile industry, just as occurred in the case of the farm machinery industry. It will mean unemployment and all its conseconsequences...
...implications of the affair are so slight that their shortcomings probably account for Miss Hall's disappointment. It certainly does not mean that our ancestors were not lewd. They were of a very impulsive and concupiscent nature; for that matter, so are their descendants. It does mean that cleverness and an eye for the put lie taste can still succeed as they deserve to; and it also means that it is high time for the mystery of "The Young Visiters" to be cleared up so that literary gossipers can finally find some rest in a world that has little respect...