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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Headquarters in Washington will largerly one for supervision to secure uniformity of policy. . . Its functions will be conducted under the same officers as at present, but their duties will be less administrative and more supervisory." This is taken to mean that Roy Asa Haynes will become even more of a figurehead than he has been and that General Andrews will be in virtual charge...
...your issue of June 15, Page 5, you quote Mr. Davey as not knowing of any buckeye trees in the state of Ohio. Surely some mistake has been made. Here in southern Ohio, the buckeye is one of our most common?I mean numerous?foresttrees. It grows everywhere. I have six in my back garden. I am confident that, in an afternoon's automobile ride around the Cincinnati hills, Mr. Davey or anyone else who knows trees could pick out 100 buckeyes. In the spring, they are the first of the trees to put forth their leaves and lovely flowers...
Your articles and the style of presentation are both excellent, I think, but I am wondering about the correctness of "Yangtszekiang River" several times used in TIME, June 22, Page 13, CHINA. Doesn't Kiang mean river? If not, the dictionaries seem to be wrong...
What does this mean? It means the smallest wheat crop in eight years. It means a wheat crop so small that it should just about equal our wheat consumption-perhaps fall slightly below it, leaving no surplus for export. It means that, even if wheat prices are low abroad, they will be high here. It means that farmers will get good prices for their wheat-even if they have not a great deal to sell...
...Said Miss Flora J. Cooke, mistress of the Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) : ". . . How can he [a boy] have sympathetic understanding of his wife and daughters if he has known only men in the course of his schooling? . . . I don't for one minute mean that we should have all women teachers . . . the ideal arrangement is to have both...