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Sirs: . . . Since your notable broadcast-"The March of Time"-I haven't missed a single number. I find it amusing and instructive to formulate my own "March of Time"-and see how close I can come to your own selections. . . . NORRIS WEST...
...Friday, each of us is permitted a few minutes to look over the freshly delivered current issue. Then, each attempts to determine which of the news features are to be dramatized on the evening program. The one picking the largest number of stories (limited to ten) that are broadcast later is entitled to undisputed possession of TIME for the remainder of the evening. It has solved quite a weekend problem-no foolin'. . . . ALLEN G. MILLER...
While the President was thus conferring up in the mountains, his Secretary of the Treasury in Washington broadcast a speech in which he proposed undefined tax changes to meet the deficit. What Secretary Mellon seemed to be arguing for was a broader income tax system to include more citizens ("Some 380,000 individuals now pay 97% of the tax"), and an increase in excise taxes...
...Social Research met the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, which in April announced its program, to be financed for the next three years by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and the Carnegie Corporation (TIME, April 13). Sitting in the New School's oval auditorium, the council heard broadcast from the White House the voice of President Hoover, introducing to them the voice of their president, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, director of the California Institute of Technology. Said President Hoover: "Dr. Millikan is more than a physicist. He has given to America great contributions in the whole field...
...Justice Holmes celebrated his 90th birthday with a radio speech (TIME, March 16). Ten years ago Mrs. Holmes arranged a birthday surprise party for him, brought together for the first time all the secretaries. He was pleased. This year with Mrs. Holmes gone, a birthday dinner after the radio broadcast would have taxed his strength. The Young Fellows came a week later, went together to his house. All had joined in commissioning Artist Charles Hopkinson to paint his portrait this summer at his home at Beverly Farms, Mass. They hope to have the painting hung in the Supreme Court...