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While Martin Luther King Jr. was in Birmingham's city jail last April, a group of white clergymen wrote a public statement criticizing him for "unwise and untimely" demonstrations. King wrote a reply???on pieces of toilet paper, the margins of newspapers, and anything else he could get his hands on?and smuggled it out to an aide in bits and pieces. Although in the tumble of events then and since, it never got the notice it deserved, it may yet live as a classic expression of the Negro revolution of 1963. Excerpts from the letter, which was addressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...Cabled to George V, received a reply???the first personal message sent to Rumania's new king by Great Britain's old one, who did not receive him when he was last in England with his henna-haired mistress, Magda Lupescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Carol & Things | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...President concluded that obtaining action from the Commission was ponderously difficult. He predicted that if the Commission answered his criticism it would probably be with the hoary governmental reply???lack of power, lack of funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...promoted in 1921 to his present post: Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. There over 300 reports reach him daily; and out to U. S. businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply???not necessarily complete?must go to every inquirer within 48 hours of the time his question reaches us. . . . The most perishable commodity on earth is commercial intelligence. . . . The concealment of facts is dangerous. If the truth is shocking, the more reason why we should have the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 1,000 Delegates | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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