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...with Superintendent William J. O'Shea (pay raised $5,000) and ending with clerks, chauffeurs, cleaners, caretakers, luncheon helpers (pay raised $100 to $286). Only the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance, now under investigation charged with running badly built schools, was left out. If the investigation reveals nothing amiss, their salaries may mount also...
Sirs: I note in TIME for June 13, 1927, that Reader A. B. Maloire, Chehalis, Wash., is of the opinion that "More Humor" would not be amiss in your magazine. I believe, as I am sure many others of your readers believe, that we buy TIME primarily and principally for the news it gives us, in the way it is given to us, and not for amusement. If Reader Maloire wants humor, there arc plenty of magazines which devote themselves in part, or in whole, to humor. Let him read the humor magazines and leave our newsmagazine...
Although excursions to Boston will doubtless now limit themselves to the exigencies of examination schedules and reviewing seminars, those who are blessed with leisure time and an appetite for cerebral drama will not go amiss by seeing Miss Le Gallienne and her little group of serious thinkers who have brought their varied wates to town important in itself Miss Le Gallienne's company is also indicative of a movement in the American theatre the revival of the repertory idea...
...train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
Sirs: ... It might not be amiss here to enlighten you as to who you were dealing with and possibly you will get a smile out of the affair as well as I. San Quentin happens to be in itself a very small little town but whenever anyone ever refers to San Quentin everyone else knows that they mean the State Prison and we are a little city by ourselves of some 3,500 inhabitants at the present time find growing right along. Personally I came here in 1922 to serve a sentence of 25 years but due to the humanity...