Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your reference to lynching in Virginia is so worded as to imply that it is quite an ordinary-happenstance. TIME, which purports to know all things, may well refer its readers to the number of lynchings which have occurred in Virginia and compare such outlawry to what goes on in sections where it is, I presume, felt that "Yankee Common Sense" controls the will of the people...
There was but a minor error which in behalf of our Dutch friends, especially several pilot friends, members of the bombing squadron at the above mentioned affair, we wish to rectify. We refer to the bombing account which tended to impress that the bombers' marksmanship was a bit poor. The fact is but one small 50 Kilo (110. 25 Ib.) bomb was dropped-a direct hit- the finish...
...future time you have occasion to refer to the poultry industry you would confer a favor upon the dealers in dressed poultry if you would make it clear that the dressed poultry industry is free from racketeering and graft, and is conducted on strictly legitimate lines...
...pertinent to refer back to the original thesis to evaluate the relative merit of the subsequent remarks. It was not the desirability of communism for India, that I contested Nor did I offer a brief for jingo nationalism. My opponent's vexation, therefore, at my inability to understand communism "in spite of his efforts," is unwarranted. I contended that imminent triumph of communism in India as envisaged by him was not likely, that the abandonment of Gandhi's methods and introduction of communism "at this juncture" may mean a serious calamity for India. I search in vain in his latest...
...Chamber of Commerce listening to 49 speeches by their fellow Chambermen. Of the 49 speakers nine were die-hard laissez-faire men, who wanted the Government to get out and stay out of their businesses. Thirteen were confused about the question or did not directly refer to it, and 27 clearly favored a larger measure of Government control of industry...