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Charter subscriber. First complaint. You refer to Wayne B. Wheeler as "high salaried." Wasn't. Got $8,000 a year. All he'd take...
...recent issue [TIME, Sept. 5] you referred to "children, insultingly called kiddies" and were commended in the LETTERS column of TIME, Sept. 19. In this same issue [Sept. 19] you inconsistently described a baby parade made up of "small-appearing brats." Which is preferable? I do not refer to my children in either way, but if someone should inquire about my "brats," I should consider it much more insulting to my children and me ^ than for them to be referred to as "kiddies...
...such phrases as "We" gather about themselves a wealth of imaginative color. But also, as the ancient myths came to be liberally disproved, so are modern ones likely to fall, the most recent casualty coming with the reported statement of Col. Lindbergh that "We" did not in reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily discredited even when disproved. It would seem likely that by now Col. Lindbergh will have more difficulty in demoting "We" from its false pedestal than he had in placing it there last spring...
Dispute. In a row between Greece and Bulgaria over the indemnification of refugees for property lost in the exchange of populations, both countries agreed to accept the Council's ruling to refer the matter to the Permanent Financial Committee. The indefatigable Sir Austen Chamberlain referred to the dispute as one "that might have disturbed the peace of the world" and added: "At a time when certain individuals are trying to underestimate the value of the services which the League can render, here is an example in which, thanks to the intervention of the League, the cause of peace...
...July 18 issue on p. 5 I first found something that grated against my sense of propriety. I have noticed it several times since. I refer to your use of the sign "&" in lieu of the word "and." This would be all right if you were referring to the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., but when you speak of "President & Mrs. Coolidge" or "Senator & Mrs. Norbeck," it reminds me of Ring Lardner's pseudo-ignorant style which seems entirely out of place in TIME...