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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
...entire system of criminal justice. There are not enough police properly to patrol the county and there are very few communities in the country where the training of police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses refuse to tell what they know, very often from a fear of the consequences at the hands either of the defendant or his friends. . . . This condition is especially true in what have received the common name of bootleg murders. Even when the witnesses are willing to testify, perjury is one of the most common offenses in the criminal court...
Please be more careful, TIME, for I cannot deny that your magazine is bright and clever and often a real pleasure. CECILIA GRAHAM BROWN...
...complexity of the religious situation arises from the fact that many Mexicans are actually of a different religious complexion from that which they profess or even from that which they suppose to be their own. Thus many anti Roman Catholic statesmen have secret leanings toward the Holy See and often have Roman Catholic wives...
...Hearst's motives in these things have often been suspected. His good results in some of them have not been questioned. His unfailing eye for sensational ? news when the Little Man of the People is belabored by the Big Men of the Interests has been an uncanny key to newspaper success...