Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your page on "Farmers" was most fairly and independently written and it came at a time when the entire country is much interested in the agricultural situation. There is no doubt but that we have a very serious economical farm problem and, until it is solved, we cannot hope to have a continuation of our national prosperity. We have prepared an article for the March issue of the Country Gentleman, explaining our position in the matter, which may be of some interest to you. No one can doubt the sincerity and frankness of TIME, as well as its fearlessness...
...blocks had been completely wiped out. Four banks, three theatres, three hotels, two newspaper plants, twelve office buildings, a Jewish Temple and a half dozen lunch rooms were hotbeds of rubbish. Total damage was estimated at $20,000,000. " Strangely enough, no one was killed; only a few suffered serious injuries. But 3,000 people were thrown out of work in a city of 150,000 population where wages had already been cut to the danger point (see p. 35). Fall River started building itself up again: There was prospect of more work. The whistles of 29 locomotives were screaming...
...SERIOUS PORGY-All Negroes are not song and dancers, particularly when shrouded in the shadow of death (TIME...
Other well regarded serious plays are: ESCAPE; CAPONSACCHE; Civic REPERTORY THEATRE; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM...
...Smith should find it necessary to refute them, and appeal to the alumnae for further controversion. A typical attack, called "Why the College Sap?" may be found in this month's Ladies Home Journal. For there it reaches the mothers of potential college students, to assail them with serious doubts of the desirability of the college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome distortion by persons seldom qualified to speak, can be no great source of alarm. But concentrated on Smith College which has been singularly and blamelessly unfortunate in the associations gathered to its name...