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...trust a single one of you any farther than I could throw a bull by the tail. If you think you have an inch of ground to stand on, cut out the shadow-boxing and get this case before the U. S. Supreme Court. I'll wager it will pluck your FDIC so close that, in comparison to its nudity, Hugh Johnson's defeathered Blue Eagle would look as if it were all dressed up in a raccoon coat...
...course, unusual for TIME to carry a photo of a Negro, for hardly a week passes without such a picture being found in your pages. In the March 4 number alone, I counted at least four photos of Negroes, which I wager will raise the ire of many a good Texan, some of whom have not fully recovered from the shock given them when TIME referred to Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell as "gentleman.". . . THOMAS C. JERVAY Managing Editor The Cape Fear Journal Wilmington...
Reader Spear it was who opened ''Man-of-the-Year" nominations with a wager of a TIME subscription on France's late Louis Barthou, rejected by the editors on the primary ground of death...
...fault of the genial Mr. Farley. The last time that someone intimated that he of the hearty handshake perpetrated a grave error, it was promptly discovered (through the agency of Mr. Farley) that the stupid offender was some young stenographer with no head at all for politics. We wager that Mr. Farley forgot to discharge her. --Cornell Daily...
...willing to wager with any one TIME reader that this year's selection will be France's late great Louis Barthou. Terms of the wager: a one year's subscription to TIME; in the case of a subscriber, a one year's renewal thereof...