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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slamming previous letter writers. Letters of criticism and appreciation are of great value, but when they are written just to give digs at some other reader who has written to TIME, it really does not help anybody one way or another and seems a rather childish attitude. This may sound as if the pot were calling the kettle black, but I assure you that the pot does not feel as black as the kettle looks...
...Japanese intervention] commenced. Our army had al ready captured Shantung. The intervention of the Japanese undoubtedly was a godsend to Chang Tso-lin. There you have two facts; all you have to do is to put them together." Dr. Wu's facts are facts, and his conclusion is sound. The Nationalist position is deserving of much sympathy. But it was the opinion last week of most responsible eyewitnesses in China that the Nationalist armies (and all Chinese armies of today) are an irresponsible rabble, constantly committing acts of violence and depredation in the course of their incessant warfare. Japan...
...most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been put on a sound basis. If the Club's development were restricted to this kind of inner strengthening rather than the hardiness of competition, the loss in adventure might find substantial compensation...
...unfillment of Secretary Kellogg's proposed treaty for the renunciation of war was taken when the British House of Lords adopted the resolution "that the proposals for the outlawry of war by the United States should have prompt and favorable consideration." Following France's suggestion that the United States sound out the powers on the question, this recommendation alters the proposal from a forlorn hope to a promising opportunity...
...incorporated in the Norris plan passed by the Senate some time ago. In it Senator Norris proposed not only that the government market the power of Muscle Shoals, but that it also devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. The dual project of the Norris plan is sound, but it has more than this to recommend it. It will provide a test of the comparative merits of public and private operation. If the government can make a success of the Muscle Shoals plant under the Norris plan which not only pays for itself, but also is concerned with...