Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railway, the "commuter's friend"? Phooey!! Between late trains, unheated cars and increased fares, all we need is another "friend" like Mr. Heineman and we'll have to move our offices to the suburbs...
What a pleasure to have Mr. Morris Freedman pinpoint an ill of our times-the self-righteous, smug, pseudo-cultured attitude of the nonconformist [Dec. 15]. I am not ashamed of the lump in my throat when hearing The Star-Spangled Banner, and am utterly sick of the apologetic manner of many Americans who seem to think everything here uncouth, while everything European is cultured and avantgarde...
Regarding Mr. Alistair Cooke's remarks on British correspondents, and in particular Mr. Don Iddon. I am a Briton by birth and recently spent over two years back in England, where I was appalled at what Mr. Iddon wrote in his columns about the American way of life...
Most Britons are avid readers of newspapers, and on the whole believe what they read. It is such columns as Mr. Iddon's that make Americans misunderstood and disliked overseas, and instead of writing on his behalf, Mr. Cooke would do well to spend a little of his time making America better understood. Mr. Iddon always appeared to be most critical when he was writing from Florida-in the winter of course-for the consumption of the British public, who perhaps had not seen the sun through the fog for several days. His columns were a sickening experience...
...Attorney Burton Roberts' attempts to interrupt Defense Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Roberts finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...