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...with just the faintest trace of insult, "But Toscanini is no Jew." Toscanini is not Jewish. What of it? Take away Toscanini, and whom have you left for a list of Gentile conductors, I ask you? Take away Toscanini, and whom have you among the Jews? I refer you to your own printed list, which includes all the conductors of note in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...showing rare good judgment. I enjoy it almost as much as chicken giblets. Until now. Under twin standing picture of Mrs. Longworth and Mrs. McCormick in fur coats which make them look like poor girls who work in stores, issue of April 23, p. 12, re Chicago Congressmen, you refer to "the two present incumbents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...drop the usage to which we have become so accustomed, however, but merely create some additional designation. You might reverse the allegation, and write something like this, each time you refer to the Roman Pope: "Achille Ambroglio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, who is mortally hated and feared by U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Truly TIME is great. Its style is spreading and now comes a new weekly which has copped its paragraph headings and its lively method of introducing the news. I refer to Affairs, an information service which gives all the low-down on what goes on in the corridors and cloakrooms of Washington. It is very specialized and does not cover the world as does TIME, but its wisdom in borrowing TIME'S features should make it prosper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...destroyer Paulding, which gored the S-4 and whose commander the court also criticized, Secretary Wilbur did not refer explicitly. He admitted that submarines have to look out for surface vessels, insisting only that the latter should be careful. So there, apparently, rested the controversy between the Navy and the Treasury Department, in whose rum-chasing service the Paulding was functioning at the crash. And there, unless Congress or the President reopens the subject, ended the S-4 disaster-except as a legend in the Navy, a leaden memory in line of duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S-4, Finis | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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