Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read your magazine ever since I entered the Naval Academy (in 1928) and have always enjoyed it thoroughly. This letter is written in the interests of scientific accuracy, rather than as ostentatious carping criticism. RICHARD S. MANDELKORN Ensign, U. S. N. Cambridge, Mass...
...Army & Navy section in the issue of March 25. It is entirely unique, because it is entirely accurate. The thinking citizen can better understand what we are, what we have, and what we seek to achieve as a result of that article which is certain to be widely read...
...Canadian Commons cheered the news with a will. Britain hoped George V would make his man a peer before John Buchan goes to Canada in the early autumn; Canadians fervently prayed he would not. Canadian politicians promptly tried to impress one another with the fact that they had read Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection of the next Governor-General in the presence of Lord Bessborough, but His Excellency will understand...
...years as a zealous alumna, clubwoman and W. C. T. Unionist, Martha Ijams had rarely been so misunderstood. When she read the White House interpretation, she tossed her blonde hair (which she wears in a modified Gibson Girl coiffure), determined to make her snubs crystal clear. Back to Washington over the press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious...
...Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money talks." Shrewd...