Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In your review of the Ziegfeld Follies, July 13 issue, you refer to the Britton Gang Orchestra as "breaking peanut brittle violins...
...much interested in the June 22 issue with a front-page picture of Morton Downey and the article giving his history. Everything you said about Morton Downey is true and more could be said but why refer to his father as a "day laborer"? It is true that he has an ordinary everyday job as driver of a fire engine in Wallingford. Conn, and that he has brought up a large family on a small income...
...Press President Hoover read this statement: "It has come to my knowledge that certain persons are selling short in our commodity markets, particularly in wheat. ... I do not refer to the ordinary hedging transactions [nor] to the legitimate grain trade. I refer to a limited number of speculators. ... In these times this activity has a public interest. It has but one purpose and that is to depress prices. It tends to destroy returning public confidence. ... It deprives many farmers of their rightful income...
...will refer to the Decameron of Boccaccio, Seventh Day, Fourth Story, you shall find this tale narrated exactly as above; the characters being Tofano and his wife Madam Ghita which makes me think that if this story, related to Mme Celarié is true, then this is a case where history repeated itself, almost verbatim...
Last week Tennessee refused to tear down its famed monument to prejudice. Before the State House of Representatives was a bill to abolish the law which forbids discussion of evolution in the public schools. Cried the bill's sponsor: "I'm getting tired of having people refer to Tennessee as the State with the monkey statute." Exclaimed another friend of evolution: "This law has done more to indict the intelligence of Tennessee than any bill ever passed." But the majority of Tennessee legislators were neither tired nor ashamed. They voted down the anti-evolution repealer...