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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just read with utter amazement a glaringly inaccurate statement in TIME Nov. 8. I refer to your reference to "one Katrina Borah" as Luther's second wife. Glib ignorance of an elementary historical fact which affected a great human movement so profoundly as did the marriage of Martin Luther to Katharina von Bora the Protestant Reformation reflects no credit on the reputation of pretensions of a. magazine such as yours (sic.). Katharina was Luther's first and only wife. His marriage to her, being that of a former priest to a former nun, raised a fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...Only foreigners refer to the Emperor by the poetic title "Mikado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sea Noon | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Defeated, 247 to 95, a motion to refer Dr. Salter's charges to the Committee on Privileges, which would have meant an individual investigation of the alleged Right Honorable drunkards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...precision. It endeavors to be very accurate in giving things their right names. To live up to this policy, would it not be advisable to call from now on the former "Roman Catholic Church" just the "Catholic Church," which, after all, is its right name. I beg to refer you to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIII, Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Student Council further voted to refer all pertinent athletic affairs to the recently appointed Undergraduate Athletic Council. The Student Council will take no action in matters of athletic significance without the advice of the Undergraduate Athletic Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL DECIDES TO DROP 1926-27 REGISTER | 10/27/1926 | See Source »

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