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Your failure to call your readers' attention to the gross misrepresentations of figures adopted as a campaign expedient by one of the presidential candidates indicates that the editors of the present board are not alive. And if the editors must have their joke, why not poke a little fun at what Al Smith calls Mr. Hoover's "statistical essays"? At least, the editors will be calling attention to the fact that Harvard College is surrounded by a nation. L. O. Pratt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Opinion | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

...pronounce the word "Trianon" casually, at Budapest, is to poke up live coals of Magyar patriotism and evoke recital of how the Allied Powers "ravished and dismembered" Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Homage to Harmsworth | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...which some people call ''elderly," and I put on glasses when I read TIME. Nonetheless I am no coward, and will not decline the challenge of Subscribess Catherine M. Whitsitt who writes to you (TIME, April 30) that she wants to give me "a poke in the nose," because I suggested to you (TIME, April 9) that President Calvin Coolidge ought to make a flight with Charles Augustus Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...means let the lady poke my nose, and I will poke hers-if it will further the development of aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...paste that on a wooden Indian's nose and poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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