Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Higgins-Hawley Sirs: At suggestion of several friends here in the Plaza Hotel and some of my staff in the Imperial Oil Co., Canada-Toronto-I sent you ten days ago news note regarding marriage of my son Louis Severance Higgins to Miss Hawley of Toronto, Oct. 9. I thought you might cover in your issue 16 or 23 Sept. We are subscribers to TIME at the Plaza Hotel. Toronto family are as well. I appreciate you cannot do this for all, but I thought in this instance you would as his name connects up a prominent family-Severance...
Your circulation department sends me a letter showing why we should patronize your magazine. I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken...
Judge William Squire Kenyon, appeared in Washington Brig. -Gen. Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...
...devote themselves to removing the reckless driver from the highways." Said Louis Dublin, famed statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. "That was the most outrageous talk I ever heard. Mr. Hoffman's doctrine is at the bottom of our troubles. I have known that automobile manufacturers had such thought in their hearts, but this is the first time I ever met one who dared to preach such a theory. There is no earthly reason for speed higher than 35 miles an hour. . . ." The National Safety Council, before whose Chicago meeting the two men spoke, could not of course change...
...Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...