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Sirs : In connection with the mention of ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom...
...libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered across the world. It is the duty of the government and of the police to prevent these paintings from getting out of the country. No government should tolerate on its soil for more than twenty-four hours an individual of this kind...
...have read, with interest, your article with reference to Mr. William Morgan Butler's search for good presidential timber [TIME...
Until last week, the one piece of presidential timber actually blazed by the Democrats was New York State's widespreading Irish oak, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. But when a Democratic State Committee finished its business in Missouri, Tuesday night, it had placed its mark on Missouri's tough-fibred, silver-topped sycamore, U. S. Senator James A. Reed...
...prospects for regular flank berths at the present time is W. W. Lord '28, baseball first baseman and for two years a member of the gridiron Seconds. From last year's Freshman team J. G. Douglas '30 and G. L. Lewis '30 have been retained as possible first string timber. F. A. Pickard '29 completes the list of Crimson jerseyed wingmen. Pickard has risen in the course of a single season from the class football ranks and is still very much of an unknown quantity...