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...National Broadcasting Company, sponsor of the debate, is awaiting the receipt of comments from the audience in order to give a decision. As this vote will come from Americans only its impartiality will be questionable owing to the strong opinion prevalent in this country against cancelling the debts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESS ATTENDS HARVARD--OXFORD DEBATE BY RADIO | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...feel that the error is so serious, however, that it warrants a public retraction and there fore sincerely trust that you will publish an emphatic retraction in your first issue that goes to press following the receipt of this letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...found him about as white a Land Commissioner as I require ... do hereby transfer to the said Annie L. Ide . . . my birthday ... to have, to hold, exercise and enjoy the same in the customary manner, by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats, and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses, according to the manner of our ancestors. . . . And in the case the said Annie L. Ide shall neglect [to celebrate it] I hereby revoke the donation and transfer my rights in the said birthday to the President of the U. S. for the time being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...private persons. Hereafter the tens of thousands of Russian emigres who have been mailing food to relatives and friends left behind in Russia will have just one recourse. They can pay a sum of money to a representative of Torgsin.* They can mail to anyone in Russia a receipt for their money called a "purchase order." In exchange for this order any Torgsin store in Russia will deliver food or goods at above prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sklar's Stores | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Counts, The allegations in the indictment are based upon the receipt by Bishop Cannon, for his campaign in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith, of $65,300 from Edwin Cornell Jameson, Manhattan insurance man (TIME, May 7, et ante). Federal statute requires that interState political contributions be filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Bishop Cannon revealed disposal of only $17,000 of Fat Cat Jameson's money. The remainder, he has insisted, is his own business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Indicted Bishop | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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