Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations on your excellent article! "Fosdick's First" is almost perfect. May I add one factor that, perhaps, would make your write-up more complete? I make this suggestion believing it is due the Rockefellers to mention this interest of theirs. I refer to their very generous appropriations over a period of years to Negro education, which work your splendid article did not mention...
Will you please refer to the issue of TIME dated Aug. 23, p. 21 under the heading Transport, where you depict the scene of the "Chatsworth Wreck" on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, particularly, the ending of the fourth paragraph, advising the public the Van Sweringen interests had taken the road out of receivership...
...refer to the Spanish embassy of the Spanish Republic as the "embassy of the Spanish Leftists," though you are well aware that there is only one Spanish Ambassador accepted by the United States Government as the duly accredited representative of the Spanish Republic. An American would resent a reference to an American embassy as the "embassy of the American New Dealers," as being disrespectful though it would be as accurate, but in the case of Spain it is more serious to use such flippancy about a government for which many are dying in its defense. It is bad enough that...
...enclosed photograph is typical of Downey despite his ''unique infirmities" to which you refer in your article...
...downright contrite when he was jumped upon by "trash" composers, their friends and Edwin Claude Mills of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, the latter suggesting that his potent organization might forbid Iturbi to play its copyrighted works. Hastily Iturbi withdrew his remarks about "trash," revised them to refer to "very light songs that anybody can hear any time over the air." Fearful of offending Gershwin partisans, Iturbi insisted that he had gone to see Girl Crazy no less than 14 times...