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...steadily decreasing. In fact, there were 3,189,000 less horses in this country the first of this year than the corresponding date of 1920. I am also enclosing a booklet called "The Horse Situation, Facts Regarding Number and Value of Horses in the United States 1911-1924." . . . Our viewpoint is entirely unprejudiced as we manufacture and sell horse-drawn tillage tools as well as power farming equipment. E. R. DURGIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve the social viewpoint that was later to shock polished people into regarding Mr. Tully as a visitation upon polite hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Roman Catholics will not officially join this movement. The reason: the Roman Catholic Church presumes exclusive religious authority delegated from God. From that viewpoint, Protestant sects are but erring scions. "Orthodox" churches subordinate phenomena. *Dr. Cadman's feature column continues in that newspaper while he visits abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In London | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Writing in a medley of moods, Author Raucat places the reader behind each of his characters in turn. The result is a set of complete reactions?everyone's viewpoint is defined. Mildly mocking, Author Raucat describes the festivities surrounding the arrival of the European at the pleasure resort. Says the stationmaster: "As a favor to my guest I offered to weigh him on the baggage scales. What a figure he made the arrow jump to! It exceeded the maximum weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...SHOW by McCready Huston. Scribner's, New York, $2. This is a novel of a man whose boyhood was spent with a circus and whose manhood was passed in the contemplation of circuses of many kinds, including his own life. His viewpoint sets him both in and out of the events he witnessed and gives the author a chance thus, to portray a character with unusual completeness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS RECEIVED | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

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