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...consistent with your policy to refer to the Corps of Cadets in a manner free from flippancy, I request that in future you omit all reference to it from your columns...
TIME printed under the heading THE PRESS an item to the effect that the so-called Parisian number of JUDGE had been barred from the mails. TIME implied that the barring had been done not without the request and consent of the publisher, Douglas H. Cooke. TIME has been unfair to JUDGE, to President Cooke, to Editor Anthony. Apologies are herewith made, and thanks are offered to E. R. Crowe for having brought justice to pass...
...purporting to come from 13,000 Porto Ricans, alleging that the island is dominated by a political machine and oppressed by taxation, that four-fifths of its 800,000 laborers are without permanent employment, and that drastic remedies are called for. ¶ Governor Len Small of Illinois called to request the President to favor larger appropriations to aid the states in eliminating bovine tuberculosis, although the President is known to be opposed in principle to Federal aid for states. ¶ Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly appointed Republican Senator from Indiana (succeeding the late Mr. Ralston), called to pay his respects...
Some time ago Congress authorized the Patent Office to turn over models of old inventions to the Smithsonian Institution and give away or destroy all models not wanted by the museum. More than 2,000 requests for old models have been made. The longest request was from Thomas A. Edison-five closely typed pages listing all his early inventions. Henry Ford made a blanket request for all mechanical engineering devices not wanted by the Government...
...mill a gallon is to be placed on the manufacture of near-beer and other cereal beverages. The tax was written into the bill at the request of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, in order to enable him to have constant control and inspection of near-beer breweries to prevent them from selling high-power beer...