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Sirs: The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and frequently The Literary Digest print on front covers of their various issues their circulation. Never have I seen a report concerning TIME'S circulation. . . . As close as I have ever come to a good guess is a statement in your own advertisement, issue of June 15, p. 62: ". . . in 350,000 homes." Why not print, just for once, your circulation? ROBERT MILLER...
What Undersecretary Mills had the most difficulty in explaining was the differences between Secretary Mellon's estimates of the Treasury condition and the actual figures. Last December Mr. Mellon set the deficit at $180,000,000, an error of $723,000.000. He missed his guess on receipts by $518,000,000, on expenditures by $205,000.000. Frankly declared Undersecretary Mills: "The discrepancy was due to the difficulty [last autumn] of measuring the severity and duration of the business depression. . . . The Treasury underestimated the effects which the fall in prices and the reduction in volume of business operations would have...
...other critics in order of guess ability were: J. Brooks Atkinson (Times), John Anderson (Journal), Percy Hammond (Herald Tribune), Walter Winchell (Mirror), Robert Garland (World-Telegram), Richard Lockridge (Sun), Gilbert Seldes (Graphic), Burns Mantle (News), Gilbert Gabriel (American...
...requirements for the benefit of our more elderly agents came up. There was a pause, and [Director] Coolidge said: 'What would this cost us?' Well, he had us stumped. . . . We told him so, and he said: 'About how much?' We just made a guess and let it go at that...
...neighbor. Pregnancy is presently established as a motive for reunion. What makes Up Pops the Devil as amusing in film as it was recently on the Manhattan stage is expert dialog by Arthur Kober and the treatment of important trivialities. Party Husband (First National). It is not hard to guess what turns a domestic comedy will take with a young couple who love each other but have made up their minds not to let marriage interfere with their separate individualities. The husband (James Rennie) appears with a smudge of lipstick on his cheek, later pursues a lady to her apartment...