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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somewhere I have heard that the President has instituted a committee for the investigation of law enforcement. Also I have heard at some time that "people who live in glass houses . . . etc.," but, suppose "Charity begins at home."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

As a reader of TIME, and a resident of Jersey City for 40 years, I resent your description of our city as set forth in your article on page 16, issue of May 27. Jersey City is not, as you say, ". . .a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood." Like any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

"Because he used yellow paper for some of his editions of the New York World, and because his paper, avoiding contemporary stodginess, sought for 'human interest.'" (TIME, May 27.) I think you are mistaken in this! I have been a constant reader of the New York World for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Immensely satisfied, the President said: "After many years of contention we have at last made a constructive start at agricultural relief. . . ." Soon he was again given cause for satisfaction. Congress appropriated the $150,000,000 required to start the machinery set up in the new law (see p. 12), to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Constructive Start | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

The board will be composed of eight members selected by the President and confirmed by the Senate, plus the Secretary of Agriculture ex officio. It will have a working capital of $500,000,000 supplied from the U. S. Treasury. With this cash to lend, it will try to induce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: End & Beginning | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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