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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 18 issue on p. 5 I first found something that grated against my sense of propriety. I have noticed it several times since. I refer to your use of the sign "&" in lieu of the word "and." This would be all right if you were referring to the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., but when you speak of "President & Mrs. Coolidge" or "Senator & Mrs. Norbeck," it reminds me of Ring Lardner's pseudo-ignorant style which seems entirely out of place in TIME...
...mercy of Governor Fuller that many a Sacco & Vanzetti sympathizer pinned his hopes. Leading U. S. newspapers, even the most conservative Foreign Journals, urged clemency. An example?the venerable Spectator in England said: "Certain facts make us feel that justice in the strict sense of the word would be truly served either by the release of the prisoners or by a further term of imprisonment the greater part of which might be taken as having been already satisfied by the six years under which the prisoners have lain under sentence of death...
Amid extreme suspense the Central Executive Committee handed down a joint 5,000-word decision which was puzzling. For whom was it a victory? On one hand it declared: "The joint plenary session has accepted in foundation a resolution for the expulsion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee." But the resolution went on to say: "The Opposition have found it necessary to give way and to renounce a number of their errors and to agree basically (although with excuses) to proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session...
Meanwhile Occidental correspondents at Shanghai were sweating with Chinese interpreters over a momentous 7,000-word document? the official resignation of Chiang Kai-shek as Generalissimo of the Nationalist armies...
...with excitement, devoured the columns. Devouring they found the sentence: "The pilots served in the armies of the Central Powers during the War." The population figuratively and (along the Northeastern coast literally) packed housetops to cheer the oncoming Germans. . . . At 3 p. m. Sunday favorable weather reports sent the word sizzling over Germany that two Junkers monoplanes would start for the U. S. Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz, Herman Koehl and Friederich Loose, flyers, sat down to hearty dinners of soup, venison, pork, coffee, wine, beer...