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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With only an amateur's "appreciation of the subtleties of modern advertising" I have compared the Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s advertisement in TIME, Oct. 21 with the letter of Mr. George M. Rascoe, TIME, Nov. 11, p. 72. From the latter I quote: "His dogs are a springer spaniel . . . and some sort of a fox hound. . . . For either birds or rabbits the two dogs would be as ridiculous as the riding boots. . . . And now the old pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort...
...would thank you most sincerely for the splendid article you published in TIME, Oct. 28 with reference to the World Convention of the Lutheran Church. It is bright and attractive; yet, at the same time bringing out the distinctive qualities of that gathering...
...Your reference (TIME, Oct. 21), to National Commander ''Ray" Murphy as "corpulent" was a piece of disgusting flippancy so characteristic of your treatment of Legion leaders...
Notice to Mutineers. Marshal Badoglio was sent to Africa last month by the Dictator to inspect particularly the Northern Front under Old de Bono's command (TIME, Oct. 28). He also visited the Southern Front on which General Graziani has been forging up toward Harar and Ethiopia's only railway, returned to Rome fortnight ago. Gossip has had General Graziani vexed by Old de Bono's reluctance to send him as many troops as he has asked for. What the dashing General in the South might not listen to from the Qtiadrnmvir, he will presumably...
...That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME, Oct...