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Sirs: Unfair, incorrect is TIME'S assertion on second news page, March 23 issue, that the Battle of New Orleans was won "15 days after the War of 1812 was over." Inference is that Senator Rose McConnell Long was wrong when she told a Senate committee that "Had we not won that battle, we would have been a British colony west of the Mississippi." The fact is ... historians now agree that the Battle of New Orleans was fought before not after, the War of 1812 was over. Said the Treaty of Ghent, signed Dec. 24, 1814: "All hostilities, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic fine Ralegh was not allowed at court for five years. From that time on, his schemes went wrong. His expeditions to Guiana brought back little but tall tales. His part in the raid on Cadiz was creditable but he got less than his share of prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Failure | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Will you check your information again and correct us if we are wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...outmoded, a far-away-&-long-ago quality ill-suited to an up-to-date campaign against the most up-to-date campaigner in Democratic history. For a generation Borah was the great Moral Force of the Senate, the one member who could arise and deal with Right & Wrong in an electric way. Now the conscience of the country has been placed in other pockets. No Senator gave longer and more loving thought to the Constitution and its preservation as a source of righteous power. Yet during the last three years of New Deal tinkering, Senator Borah's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Long Ago & Far Away | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...Gott! To the eyes & ears of Anglo-Saxons were presented monster Nazi campaign rallies all over the Reich at which Germans, massed in individual gatherings as large as 300,000. were told by Nazi orators that Adolf Hitler and the Fatherland have done no wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germans Preferred | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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