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...custom nor inclination to remonstrate with periodical editors upon the policies of their magazines but I cannot overlook one of the articles in TIME, June 22. I refer to the one entitled "Publishing Church...
Future historians will probably not linger long over the Democratic Convention of 1936. They will record the automatic renomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner, refer briefly to a platform hand-made at the White House (see p. 14), remark on the high spirits of the delegates and pass on to matters of larger moment. But many a young Democrat will long remember his Party's Philadelphia party last week as one of the wildest political jamborees ever staged. Whatever the donkey's doings may have lacked in heavy brain work, it more than made...
...either purposely omit the name of one of the most outstanding men so vitally responsible for the Texas Centennial or does the Editor of TIME justly intend devoting a full article in TIME'S next issue to this man who deserves so much credit for his accomplishments? I refer to Mr. Fred F. (for Farrel) Florence, president of the Texas Centennial. Mr. Florence, president of the Republic National Bank & Trust Co. and one of the country's leading bankers, has devoted a great deal of his time working untiringly and without any compensation to make the Centennial...
...read. He also editorialized in last week's Post: "Long may the memory of Corra Harris remain green. Long may pilgrims visit her exquisite little chapel and behold her simple homestead, still open to visitors, set off against the background of stately trees that the owner liked to refer to as her 'cathedral pines.' She was a gifted writer and a good woman, and we wish we had more of the same sturdy breed...
...seems to me that the subject of city planning deserves to be built up in this country. The Harvard School under Mr. Hubbard has made a good beginning and is today the most important focus of this subject in this country. I do not refer to planning in general. That is another thing. Nowadays all sorts of planning center in Washington,--social, economic, financial, etc. There ought to be an education center for city planning somewhere. If the subject is dropped out at Harvard, there will be no center in this country...