Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During several years constant, thorough and appreciative reading of your splendid newsmagazine, I have until now, resisted the oft-occuring temptation to write you in commendation of your policy in the set-up of your periodical, but since reading Mr. John Palmer Gavit's letter in TIME. Oct. 3, I want to say "Amen" to all that he said, and to add that his letter is by far the best one on the subject that I have seen, and I am confident of having read all of them to date...
...James Palmer, long associate rector at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and now a professor in the exceedingly orthodox Biblical Seminary in Manhattan, put the preacher's temptation into blunt words last week: "I could have become rich if I had married all the divorced persons who wanted to be wed. At the Fifth Avenue Church there were hundreds of divorced couples who presented themselves for marriage. Some came to see me; others telephoned. Not a small number were wealthy and, though they never, in my experience, actually offered extraordinary fees for the performance of the service...
...Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...
...their predecessors are the following: for the class of 1803, W. H. Palmer, 141 Broadway, New York City, will succeed the late C. H. Denny; for the class of 1867, J. R. Churchill, Kimball Bldg., Boston, will take the place of the late J. R. Carret; for the class of 1875, former Dean Le Baron R. Briggs, R. F. D. 1, Bournedale, will fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. A. Reed; and for the class of 1893, W. De L. Howe, 947 Exchange Bldg., Boston, becomes secretary in the place of the late S. F. Batchelder...
...weekly circus, even if you do sometimes allow too many encores, permitting obvious pinheads to overstay their welcome. Run your magazine to please yourselves. Don't try to please everybody -it can't be done. Believe me, I know- I have been editing for 40 years. JOHN PALMER GAVTT...