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TIME accepts as first-rate humor, not without advertising value, the Boston Herald's jibe by able Cartoonist Francis Wellington Dahl. Taking as his text the recent advertisement for TIME Inc.'s new fortnightly, LETTERS, "a publication . . . written by its readers," Cartoonist Dahl shows an earnest little man writing copy, drawing illustrations, setting type, tending press, delivering LETTERS to a house (presumably his own), finally receiving a notice: "Dear Sir-Your subscription has expired-Please send two dollars." But Cartoonist Dahl erred. The yearly subscription for LETTERS, beginning with the Oct. 1 issue, is only...
...July John Wellington Finch, dean of the University of Idaho's School of Mines, was called to Washington to be made Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The day he arrived to receive his commission it was discovered that the President had not signed it. Scribbled on the margin was the note: "Held up because of political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried...
...Democratic National Committee. Again the President announced that, as a New Deal measure, all Postmasters should be put under Civil Service. Congress adjourned without anything being again heard of such a bill, and Mr. Farley laughed it off. Three weeks ago, Secretary Ickes prepared to induct John Wellington Finch of Idaho as Director of the Bureau of Mines. When told of Dr. Finch's fine technical qualifications for the job, the President had verbally approved the appointment and then sailed off on his holiday. When Dr. Finch's commission came over to the Bureau of Mines it bore...
Three months ago in Washington. Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...
...Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during the Gladstone epoch; the romance between Wellington's aide, Fitzroy, and Nathan's daughter, Julie, and the great friendship of Wellington and Rothschild are fictitious...