Word: mens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The fatality of TIME'S cover is not exclusively reserved for sports figures (Letters, Nov. 27). The following men have been jinxed immediately, or soon after, their appearance as Men of the Week (I include only those I remember offhand - there are undoubtedly many more) : Ethiopia's Selassie [Jan. 6, 1936] - his country accompanied him into oblivion...
...greater percentage of really fine folks than any city of similar size in the country. I should like to have you personally spend an evening with any of our fine family, club or social groups, or spend a day talking and visiting with our business and professional men on Cermak Road, or the side business streets, and I'll wager that thereafter your opinion would not be so biased...
...drawn in opposite directions by the charm of habit, and by the charm of novelty. Not only in politics, but in literature, in art, in science, in surgery and mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Every where there is a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find also every where another class of men, sanguine in hope, bold in speculation, always pressing forward, quick to discern...
...first time what the State Department really is: not a policy-making machine, not a stable of thoroughbred cutaway-horses, not a mess of pigeonholes, but an extremely expert research body for the use of one man, the President. He found it full of extraordinarily well-informed men, was delighted to learn that State's Far Eastern representatives, both at home and in the field, are traditionally among the best. And he learned how heartbreakingly slow the action of U. S. foreign policy...
...milk-distributing corporations through a dealers' association, a farm milk-producers' association, and milk-bottlers, down through an A. F. of L. milkwagon drivers' union to President Herman N. Bundesen and his Chicago Board of Health, a police officer, Daniel A. Gilbert, and two men who arbitrated price disputes...