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...subscriber to your publication, I was very much surprised to read an article in your issue under date of Jan. 30 entitled "Queen City." The whole tenor of this article was so discreditable to a reputable and valuable publication such as TIME, that I feel justified in calling your attention to it as the City Manager and Chief Executive of the City of Cincinnati. The author of the above mentioned editorial seems to take great pleasure in disparaging prominent citizens whose success has been acquired through industry. Moreover, there are a number of gross misstatements in the article...
...story headed "Queen City," two phrases may have provoked. The story told how Cincinnati had once been the Queen City of the West. It concluded by reporting that Cincinnatians, animated by a progressive spirit, were ambitious to make it a "Queen City" once more. The two provocative phrases were a) that Cincinnati "has drooped, malnourished industrially:" b) that it "has become bedraggled and dirty." Both sentences were meant in a comparative sense. Comparatively, Cincinnati has drooped, many another midland city having shown a far greater rate of industrial growth in the last 50 years. As to dirt, last fortnight...
...Like Queen Mary of England (see p. 15), Mrs. Coolidge last week fell ill. A heavy cold sent her to bed with pain in her side and a trained nurse standing by. After four days, White House Physician James Francis Coupal reported her convalescent. The attack caused her to miss a state function for the first time in her two terms as White House hostess. President Coolidge alone conducted a formal dinner to Speaker Longworth of the House...
Momentously the Queen-Empress was indisposed. She was stricken last week, as was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, with a stay-a-bed cold. Therefore two records were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
Other laughing matters: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, PARIS BOUND, THE BABY CYCLONE...