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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registered on various bills, how he is regarded by unbiased observers so far as legislative ability goes. . . . Your thoro unbiased and courageous reports on national affairs and on individuals lead me to ask whether you can and do furnish to your readers . . . a report on the record of any particular member of Congress. . . . EVERETT M. DIRKSEN
Your historical ads make as good reading as your indispensable magazine. Recently I enjoyed the one entitled "The Merkle Incident." It was astonishingly complete and very well written, but surely it was mistaken in one important particular. You say, " 'Iron Man' McGinnity, coming on the run, seized the ball and hurled it into the stands. Tinker pinned his arms and the ball lobbed into the crowd already surging on the field...
...this particular game and I remember distinctly that McGinnity struggled with John Evers, not with Joe Tinker. Hugh Fullerton, the celebrated baseball expert, bears me out in his article "The Game that Stirred the Nation," in Liberty, July 14, 1928. He writes: "Joe Mc-Ginnity, the 'Iron Man' pitcher of the Giants, who had been coaching at first base, had seen Merkle's fatal blunder. He ran into the field and rushed at Evers. The ball was tossed to Evers just as McGinnity tackled him. McGinnity tore the ball from his hands, and while they fought, threw...
Whatever concessions are made by the U. S. in Geneva are to be interpreted in no other sense than as efforts to advance toward the cardinal ideal. This applies in particular to Mr. Gibson's abandonment a fortnight ago of the traditional U. S. demand that "reduction of armaments" must include curtailment of the numbers of "trained reserves." This concession and a supplementary announcement by Mr. Gibson last week that the U. S. will also stomach the existence of unlimited stores of military supplies are not to be misinterpreted...
...once newspapers learn that an institution is trying to suppress a story, the chances are nine out of ten that they will give that particular story a much bigger ply than they would have had it been given to the papers when it first broke." The New Student