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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement of his own views, or in his attack upon the views of his adversary, but they do at least prohibit misstatements of fact. It may be, to be sure, that TIME quoted Mr. Cameron Rogers* in its choice of terms, but it is sometimes hard to tell when TIME is quoting and when TIME is merely trying to be funny in the college humor fashion, and in either event TIME might keep itself better informed. In order to forestall any attempted wisecracks about my religious beliefs, please note that I believe in God, and that my faith is neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Bulletin too has its red cover. Red is a masculine color and you are integrating the American mind out of its effeminate idolatry of words. Did you ever tell your 100% objectors to your red strip to begin with the flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...want to give you the name of a prospective subscriber and also tell you a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...manufactured ar spread by their Washington lobby -ONETIME COL. WILLIAM MITCHEL "What's the use of getting into an argument with a man who, on the face of it, doesn't know what he is talking about, and, if he did, couldn't tell the truth about it?" -ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THEODORE DOUGLAS ROBINSON. This exchange of acrimonious accusations last week marked the return to the public ear of onetime Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925, e seq.). It has long been Mr Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Again, Mitchell | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...hounding police that the double-thumbed hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands dangle idle. Later, after being provoked to a second murder, he amputates the tell-tale arms. Impetuous Youth (Elizabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt). Ufa, German producers famed for Variety, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Faust and other inspired ventures, have bogged this time. Their heroine is a girl jealous of her stepmother's affection for her father. She leaves home, later flees school, to wander gypsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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