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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When some of these narrow-minded, biased men, who claim that the army is "for men only," even he does not deserve to belong to the army. I am a Boy Scout and I object to Reader C. Knapp's letter [TiME, Aug. 8] on three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hearst | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

First, does Reader Knapp realize that when he makes light of the Boy Scout movement, that there are close to one million Boy Scouts doing a Good Turn da'ly? Does he realize that these boys will be the men of the future generation and that because of their training there will not be any such catastrophe as the World War, in which millions of men were killed? If Reader Knapp can recall 365 good deeds, in any year during his boyhood, he surely would be more broad-minded than he is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hearst | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Broun v. World | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...address begins as a novel and ends as a tract, the recent general strike in England developing from a background into a thesis. The reader is left with an impression of Mr. Wells as a very sincere and vigorously intelligent man who has grown impatient and tedious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

With Mr. Sempack looming near, Philip turns socialist, improves his diction and spelling, begins writing adult ("real") letters to Cynthia, reporting the strike and his own evolution from an amiable parasite into a social thinker. Cynthia writes back and in addition keeps a 'journal. The reader is denied, or spared, very little that they think or feel, with the result that the World State, though it must be nearer with potent young Philip on its side, remains vague in outline and seems to belong only to the Rylands', Mr. Sempack and Author Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

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