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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategy of the move is clear. The plan is being started on a shoostring with no assurance of where the money is coming from to continue it and to expand it eventually to provide some forty such large fellowships for every class. The President is relying upon some unknown Harkness to come forward with the necessary funds to insure the success of a hold and original experiment...
Letters to the editor are still less an indication of public sentiment. The most powerful men in the U. S. today are not the great bankers, financiers or real estate racketeers, but the obscure and unknown persons who pass upon letters to the editor and decide what shall and what shall not be printed. From their decision there is no appeal. They can, as many of them do, suppress all letters attacking the grievous wrongs and social injustices of our present economic system. Once in a while, to make a pretense of fairness, a letter criticizing the existing social order...
...Reader Graham be assured that no "obscure and unknown person" passes upon Letters-to-the-Editor of TIME. Each & every letter printed (and many another not printed) is read and cogitated by the Editor after it has been selected and recommended by a trained and trusted staff member. Of the hundreds of letters received weekly by TIME, it is possible to print only a dozen or so. Those printed are chosen by the same criteria as govern the selection of news published in TIME, plus the criterion of justice: making corrections or apologies where gravely due. Never is a letter...
...automobile show in that practically all the new developments are invisible to the untrained eye. A five-year-old cruiser could be planted on the floor among its newborn sisters and the layman would never know the difference. Radical changes in design from year to year are practically unknown. But there are always new wrinkles. The talk of the 1934 show was rubber mountings for engines, to reduce noise and vibration. First introduced by Chrysler two years ago, it is incorporated in many new models, notably in Elco's Veedette 28. Another new twist is Dodge's "Multiple...
...father pay through the nose, Kit returns him all the money, with interest, which his upbringing has cost. From the rest he gives Beatrice a handsome dowry, Narcissa a present that will make her pomp less anxious, then takes himself and his sternly aching heart off to parts unknown. Net result of Kit's fierce attitudinizings is to remind the reader less of a Hemingway hero than of Carl Sandburg's fairy-tale character who. when asked: "Why do you always shadow us?" replied. "I ;.m a peanut, a proud, peculiar peanut...