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...Reader Workman (Nov. 10, 1924) thought that TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive...
...sell at lower costs. This equation needs no proof beyond the record of the past 50 years, . . . We can honestly say, at least in our country, that man does not have the right to employ his fellow man unless he can pay a subsistence wage [and] the average American workman cannot keep body & soul together on less than $30 a week anywhere...
Etten, New York 18 Workman, Boston...
...death, she called at the bank daily to inquire for her brother. In legend, she became the "bank nun." Until 1924, the bank occupied a low, fortress-like pile dominating London's City, was known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. (Despite its ponderous look, a workman once found his way from the street through building cracks and into the bullion room.) It withstood the bombs of the Luftwaffe...
...naval chaplains have long complained that their chief, Captain Robert D. Workman, did not have sufficient prestige. His rank was below that of the Army Chief of Chaplains, Major General William R. Arnold, and his office was just an appendage of the Naval Bureau of Personnel. Last week, after a unanimous Senate vote, Chaplain Workman could not only sport the stripes of a rear admiral, but looked forward to coming home from a 25,000-mile Pacific tour to a brand-new office of the Chief of Naval Chaplains...