Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quibble with your indiscriminate use of the word "late" in titling pictures of deceased persons, viz., Father Damien in your Feb. 3 issue, Edith Cavell, Feb. 17, and Josiah Royce, Feb. 24. "Late" means existing recently but not now. "Recent" is relative, to be sure, as is time itself, but would not be applied by our up-to-the-minute newsmagazine in referring to the death of Father Damien in 1889 or of Professor Boyce and Nurse Cavell in World War days. A resolution, please...
...recent attack on Mr. Baldwin's "thinking machine" by Elder Conservative Statesman & Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 24) was last week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...
Father: I do not say that there was. I do not keep dates after the manner of men. ... In recent years, I have Condescended to write...
...free advertising. In FORTUNE two years ago appeared the first of a series of World Peaceways full-page ads, written by Bruce Barton. Now prepared by Young & Rubicam, the campaign has reached the point, projected several years ago, "where we would dare to introduce a little ridicule." A recent World Peaceways page showed a disabled veteran, with the caption: "Hello, sucker...
...Passenger revenue, in the same period, had dropped from $1,000,000,000 to $300,000,000. The I.C.C also pointed out that most of the Western roads are already operating under a 2?-a-mile fare, that many Southern roads charge only 1.5? a mile. It cited the recent experience of the Southern Railway and the Seaboard Airline to show how lower rates had increased passenger revenue and turned a Seaboard passenger deficit into a passenger profit. The I.C.C. admitted that Eastern carriers were not running as many nearly empty coaches and Pullmans as Southern roads but argued that...