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...year previous. This class of mail (newspapers and periodicals) had been the largest burden (loss) to the Post Office. But publishers howled so bitterly in protest against a raise of rate, and the politicians were so afraid of them, that second-class rates, although juggled a bit, were not really increased ?as the above result shows...
...election of 1912 he won his first victory at the polls?and then he was not a candidate. Bitter, bitter had been the Democratic Convention when Bryan, bit in teeth, prevented the nomination of Champ Clark, secured the nomination for Woodrow Wilson...
...Every bit of anthracite smeared with blood...
Pretty Ladies. Another bit of accuracy is here dealt round on the general subject of Broadway. The Follies, with Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Ann Pennington, Gallagher and Shean, and even Mr. Ziegfeld adequately included, is the subject. It seems that the low-comedy actress had never had a lover. It was the trap drummer that finally succumbed. They were very happy until the luxurious prima donna leered her way into their lives. Then a strange ending, so swift and so sincere as to be almost out of place...
...likewise frank with its readers. Frankness breeds discontent at times; discontent brings complaint, sometimes valid, more often invalid. TIME, in its unique way, says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse petty sentimentalists to complaint...