Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, the newsmagazine, speeding to press like a newspaper, committed a typographical error which apologies cannot erase. The caption should have read: "Mrs. Harriman helped...
...subscribe to over a dozen magazines but TIME is the only one I read. It is great...
...enjoying the news as portrayed until I came to p. 10, your article on the Ku Klux Klan-which I read and reread...
Police brutality, onerous anti-picketing injunctions, and the breakdown of the Jacksonville agreement were the burden of Mr. Lewis' tale which rambled somewhat under stress of emotion. President Coolidge's letter to Mr. Lewis in December 1925, was read into the record deploring "the breaking of any contract," explaining why the U. S. could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller...
...epidemic of 500,000 cases of influenza is raging in Japan. So said despatches featured last week by the U. S. press. No, there is no epidemic. Instead, cases of pulmonary diseases are "slightly fewer than normal" in Japan this winter. So read later despatches ignored by most U. S. editors...