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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension how people can get enjoyment out of a magazine that is so daring and does nothing but criticize the things that should receive encouragement. While your news items are interesting, they are written in such a way that they become cheap bits of gossip. Instead of calling your magazine TIME, I would suggest you call the paper Gossip. If I should read anything in your paper that would receive a kindly comment, I think I would drop dead. If you are contemplating giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...least, ran the continuation of the flood district articles written by L. C. Speers, alert staff correspondent of The New York Times (TIME, July 18). Last week's articles, dealing with conditions in Louisiana, emphasized three points: the destitution of the people; the failure of the emergency loan-relief system to function; and a growing resentment toward the inactivity of the Federal Government. Destitution. It is about 17 miles from Delta Point, La., to Tallulah, La. In this territory Mr. Speers counted 234 houses still in water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Land of Cotton? | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took the Indianapolis Times into his confidence and sent to the Times many of the documents contained in the "little black box" where he had foresightedly deposited written evidence of his transactions. The most startling of these documents was a check (which the Times reproduced across four columns of its front page) signed by Mr. Stephenson, made out to and endorsed by Governor Jackson, for the amount of $2,500. It was accompanied by a notation, written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bones Picked | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

They are "he." Together they have written his books in fruitful collaboration. They alone know why his heroes are so often scientists, and even why the love lives of these scientists-in-fiction are so disconcertingly unscientific. They are a dry, shrewd pair, les freres Boex. Last week the elder brother returned to Paris from a tour of the U. S. His comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Humiliating Experiences | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile the police, to their intense chagrin, continued powerless to find the secret hiding place of M. Daudet who, last week, contributed daily an impudent, secretly written article to L'Action Française, reviling and ridiculing the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Daudet Aftermath | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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