Word: r
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disagree with the gentlemen in Montreal [TIME, June 5] regarding your reporting of the Royal tour. I think you are doing a fine job, in fact an excellent job all round. . . . WM. R. HADDOCK Toronto...
...carrying a small bundle and on the outside I lad the latest issue (at the time) of your magazine. He told me after we were travel-ng along that anyone who read TIME was friend of his, he was also one of your many admirers. . . R. S. ROBERTSON Toronto, Can. Wily Bonefish Sirs...
Reprisals: In London, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. A. Butler faced a House of Commons chagrined and angered by the blockade, announced the Government was considering "measures." The British Government issued a statement which still offered arbitration on the question of the four Chinese but which hinted darkly of possible reprisals if the Japanese refused to lift the blockade. The Cabinet met for two and a half hours, went over methods of economic retaliation. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes called Japan's action a "declaration of war against the British Empire." The New York...
...your pipe and smoke it" (when he has made a killing shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once he was suspended from the House for swearing at the Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry whom Member Kirkwood does not like, "might better be used for rearing human beings...
...outside observers ft seemed that somebody had the wrong bull by the tail. For in the U. S. S. R., according to the New York Times'?, Harold Denny, "any theory that implies hereditary superiority is anathema." Yet no Soviet anathema has fallen on Darwinism, whose theories (of natural selection and survival of the fittest) are premised on hereditary superiority. The basic researches of Mendel and Morgan, which the students explicitly to-helled, have less to do with superiority than with the actual mechanisms of heredity...