Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME'S spicy, well written columns are marred by one thing. The magazine is too local. As a newsmagazine it should be more liberal, more cosmopolitan. Since when is Ontario an "American" State,- or Windsor a suburb of Detroit ? Since when is the business of Ontario NATIONAL AFFAIRS of the United States...
...Ottawa, Ont., with this letter went the "distinguished citizen" about whom it was written-William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada (TIME, Feb. 14). He lunched with Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, presented his credentials to Governor General Viscount Willingdon, later dined with the Viscount at Rideau Hall, home of Lord and Lady Willingdon. Thus the Dominion greeted its first U. S. Minister, whose actual duties, however, await the official opening of the U. S. legation on July...
...Committee. Most famed among the three committeemen is Abbott Lawrence Lowell, since 1909 President of Harvard University. Before entering the Harvard Faculty he had 17 years' experience in the practice of law, has made the science of government his specialty and has written two books on the character and potency of public opinion...
...judge of the Probate Court and Court of Insolvency of Suffolk County. Born in Boston in 1852, he graduated from Harvard in 1873 (though at one stage of his undergraduate career he was publicly reprimanded for having absented himself from chapel on 22 occasions). He has written more than 20 volumes of novels and essays, his stories generally dealing with the "best people," no state occasion being required for his characters to appear in evening dress...
Some thoughtful person once declared that "the pen is mightier than the sword" and thus opened up a question which has been the subject of debate for many, many-years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, implying that the written word has more power and influence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well night out of date...