Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME: Curt, clear but incomplete. In TIME of March 9, p. 12, paragraph 7, "Late in entering the fight, Commander O'Neil made up for lost time by bringing the full political pressure of his huge organization to bear upon Congress." There is no mention whatsoever of any other veteran group in your entire story. It is time the public of the nation realized that Commander O'Neil and his huge organization do not represent all the World War veterans. In the 1930 national convention of the American Legion, a motion to participate in the fight with the Disabled American...
Ella Wendel's will, filed during the week, did not even mention fat Tobey Wendel. The family fortune, estimated at $100,000,000, gave bequests to family friends and retainers, to charities and religious bodies, following closely the will of Miss Ella's sister, Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendel Swope, who died last summer (TIME, Aug. 4). Flower Hospital received its expected share (but its officials scouted the leg-setting story); and the famed old Wendel house went to Drew Theological Seminary, whose onetime president, Dr. Tipple, was an old family friend...
...believe a little mention given to Judge Shackleford and his fine record of public service would be entirely in order, and would prove interesting to not only his old friends and admirers, but to all your readers...
...mention one thought that comes to me as a listener-in. The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'The work is done...
...bonus plan from that great and canny Steelman Andrew Carnegie, who gave Charles Schwab a yearly bonus of $1,000,000.* Scoffing this, Mr. Hebard wrote: ''Your reference to the $1,000,000 bonus paid to you by Mr. Carnegie 30 years ago does not mention that the fabulous profits realized then by the iron and steel industry were due not so much to any super-management but rather to the utterly unjustified high protective tariff and the rail pool. No such profits are obtained today...