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...your May 17 issue of TIME you refer to the Duke of Connaught as "Last surviving child of Queen Victoria," thus relegating to the realm of ghosts those two decidedly alive and grand old ladies, Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, both surviving offspring of the union of Victoria and Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...opposed the otherwise undisputed master of U. S. politics, they had been bitterly assailed. One or more Justices may, like Mr. Van Devanter, retire and be replaced before the Court meets in October. But these particular nine old men were The Nine Old Men to whom future history will refer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Farewell Appearance | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...your report of the proceedings had before the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), you refer to the "brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Like Roosevelt the term "race" is used poorly. If you speak of the "White" race, you assume that race is a matter of skin pigmentation; when you refer to the "Jewish" race, you are differentiating on a religious basis; while the "Irish" race must mean one "characterized either by geographical position, or, failing, that, by temperament." The criteria of race, anthropologically speaking, are physical characteristics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

Northerners called it the Rebellion; Southerners, the War between the States. Historians refer to it as the Civil War. But what plain folks called it while it was going on, few Northerners or Southerners or historians can now tell convincingly. To roll back time 75 years is a trick only artists can perform. Evelyn Scott has had a good try. Last week Newshawk Royce Brier had another. A Pulitzer Prizeman (for his story of the Brooke Hart kidnappers, 1934). he went at his bigger story in first-rate newshawk fashion. 1937 readers of Boy in Blue may not get exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Army of the Cumberland | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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