Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Sharp, exact detail is a TIME quality which readers respect. For TIME to say that Phil Stong's State Fair is "rich in sharp, exact detail" is to trespass on this TIME quality which to the devoted newsmagazine reader is sacred ground. TIME'S review of State Fair was reasonable, but to refer to the book as a standard of accuracy in details of Iowa rural life (p. 33, Sept. 5 issue) is deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about...
...never realized the importance and the extent of the scrap iron industry and the service that it rendered in American business. I have acquired a decided degree of respect for the so-called junk or scrap man as the result of your interesting article, and I sincerely hope that in these days, when businessmen are looking for every encouragement, scrap iron will prove to be the reliable barometer of business prospects in the near future, which I now learn...
...they tried to outstrip each other in expensive promotion stunts until in 1928 lively little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Denver, made peace with Publisher Bonfils. Scripps-Howard withdrew its evening paper, Bonfils his morning one. There was amiable talk about how the remaining sheets would "deserve the respect and friendship of each other." Last week Publisher Bonfils sued Publishers Howard & Scripps and Editor Charles E. Lounsbury of the Rocky Mountain News for libel. He sued not because of any mean things said by the News, but because of things which the News said had been said by Walter...
...average American men and women who, I am not ashamed to repeat, have been forgotten by those in power." The Roosevelt remedies: 1) "Every effort to prevent the issue of manufactured and unnecessary securities brought out merely to enrich those who handle their sale. . . . Definite and accurate statements in respect to bonuses and commissions, investment of principal, true earnings, true liabilities, true assets." 2) "Federal power applied to the regulation of holding companies that sell securities in interstate commerce." 3) "Federal authority in the regulation of exchanges in the business of buying and selling securities and commodities." 4) "Vastly more...
...Andre Maurois, now No. 1 French popular writer and blurber) whose sympathy for his characters is notorious. U. S.French Author Julian Green writes of his human specimens with the coldness but without the spite of an Aldous Huxley. His uninspiring, rather clammy books are informative but disagreeable, arouse respect but rarely sympathy...