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...above sea level. I have been plagued with the ordinary house fly in South America at altitudes above 12,000 feet, when there were horses to furnish the manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence of a mythical line at an elevation of 2.500 feet, did not stop the inhabitants from...
...wish you would discontinue my name on your subscription list as I do not care to read it. In TIME, June 6* you quote a Chicago lawyer saying, Ceasar is as Grudus,† Washington is Benefict Arnold, and United States a Jefferson Davis, intimating that Jefferson, the elected President of a seceding organization, should be placed in the same group with the man who murdered his friend and a man who would trade his country for money. In your issue of May 30, you quote Clarence Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, as saying before a Negro organization in attempting to answer...
...original subscriber and constant reader, admirer and friend of TIME. Simply wish to register my disapproval of article on pp. 6 and 7, last issue [TIME, June 20], concerning President Coolidge. Quotation or not, epithets and slurs, so disrespectful of our President, in my opinion, should not be printed in a high-class journal, certainly not in TIME, which has thus lowered its very high standard and greatly disappointed your good friend...
...wish to cast my pearls before [significant pause]-those who don't want them...
...vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers and the rank and file of our membership have stood lovingly, loyally and enthusiastically with...