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...certainly enjoy your clear and fool-proof accounts of the progress of the national election each week. I note that some people have accused you of being pro-Roosevelt, etc. What do they want you to do? Publish a garbled account of the trend of the times, and soft-pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these...
...Stars. As proof of an economic-upturn, President Hoover cited ten stars in the murk since the Depression's low: 1) return from abroad of $300,000,000 in gold; 2) return of $250,000,000 in currency from domestic hoarding; 3) 20% increase in bond values; 4) 10% increase in manufacturing production; 5) increased building contracts; 6) a jump in weekly car loading from 490,000 to 650,000; 7) 22% increase in foreign trade; 8) improved agricultural prices ("though they are still hideously low") ; 9) "bank failures have almost ceased"; 10) increased manufacturing employment...
...months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...
...makers of the four leading 10? cigarets (there are a dozen others, with local sales) worried little last week. If suspicion were cast on the quality of their brands they could point to their sales as proof that the public likes them. They are all oldtime tobacconists, sure they can keep costs down low enough to profit on a small margin. They point out that tobacco has averaged 19? per Ib. for the past 20 years, is not likely to rise far above that. As for the fairness of taking advantage of advertising-increased cigaret consumption while not advertising themselves...
Completely routed by an obviously Eli-proof Brown team, against which the Crimson's kicking and running attacks made little impression, Coach Casey's team looks forward to the coming game with a reputedly strong and tested West Point aggregation with considerable trepidation...