Man of the Year
Sirs:
A subscriber--"From the beginning of TIME" --I want to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt as ''Man of the Year''
Battling triumphantly with a relentless fate, he has had to meet and solve the most momentous questions that have ever confronted the American people.
RICHARD REEDER
Butler, Pa.
Franklin Roosevelt was Man of 1932, Man of 1934.--ED.
Sirs:
For ''Man of the Year'' I wish to nominate the man responsible for America's continued peaceful attitude, the soother of all worries of foreign powers involving us in war. . . . Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
HARRY J. FRIEDMAN New York City
Sirs:
Man of the Year was undoubtedly the late, great Will Rogers. To state all the reasons would be as impossible as unnecessary.
EDWARD TURNER
Boston, Mass.
Men of the Year must be living candidates.--ED.
Sirs:
Kentucky's newly-seated Governor Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler should be TIME'S 1936 Man of the Year. ... I feel that I speak for several million Kentuckians.
WALTER R. GREEN
Publisher
The Flemingsburg Times-Democrat Flemingsburg, Ky.
Sirs:
I nominate Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. . . . He has the courage to say what a lot of good Democrats think.
MARY C. HAMILTON
Dalton, Ga.
Sirs:
. . . All things considered, I believe Senator Carter Glass of Virginia may be regarded as having done more than any other one man. . . .
SILAS H. STRAWN
Chicago, Ill.
The Old Year draws to a close and the New appears a short way off. The magic lantern slides show momentary portraits of Eden, Laval, Mussolini, George II and a host of lesser ilk. Long, Coughlin and Townsend have each passed on to the termination of their respective physical, political and economic lives. . . .
But there is one exception. A labor figure already firmly intrenched in the social horizon looms larger and greater. . . . For the Man of the Year, I nominate John L. Lewis. SCERIAL THOMPSON
Harrisburg, Ill.
For Man of the Year I nominate Father Coughlin and I am no Catholic.
HARRY ROTH
Newport, Ky.
Sirs:
Nomination for Man of the Year: Herbert Clark Hoover: Statesman, clear-thinker, honest and fearless. . . .
GEORGE L. SHAW
Bangor, Me.
If the choice of the Man of the Year is to be based not upon virtues but upon influence, I should nominate Mussolini.
KINGSLEY R. FALL
The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Mass.
Sirs:
For attempting to prevent a possible European war, for unifying his nation, and risking his life in the defense of it. for TIME'S Man of the Year, I nominate a monarch, scholar, statesman, and hero--the Emperor Halle Selassie I.
G. C. WARD
Middletown, Conn,
TIME, having decided on a "Man of the Year," hereby closes nominations.--ED.
Caesarean Sirs:
Your wonderful pictures of a Caesarean section [TIME, Dec. 9 ] thrilled me greatly since I have had the same operation (with a local anesthetic). Everyone should look at these pictures with a deep reverence and respect for the skilled surgeons we now have who yearly save the lives of many mothers and babies, who otherwise would never have a chance.
I'll always be indebted to the fine doctor who so safely and beautifully brought my son into the world.
Would it shock you to know that I showed the pictures to my almost 6-year-old son and he thought them as wonderful and lovely as I did? A very modern mother,
MRS. H. C. Doss
Kansas City, Mo.
Sirs:
The publishing of pictures on a Caesarean operation ... is atrocious. After all there is such a thing as common decency!
DAVID RUBIN
Elizabeth, N. J.
Sirs Your press reporter's footnote that "the Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesa . . ." will be followed, I believe, by a number of letters from readers who were informed concerning this unimportant but interesting fact by Howard W. Haggard, M.D., of Yale University, in his book Devils, Drugs and Doctors.
. . . Caesar's mother lived for several years after he was born. The operation obtained its name from the fact that the Roman law required this procedure in case of the mother's death; the laws under the emperors became Caesarean laws, and the operation the Caesarean operation." JOHN M. SIEGEL
Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia, Pa.
Wise Countians
Sirs:
In TIME, Dec. 2 there was an article concerning the trial of Edith Maxwell. . . . The impression is left that Judge Skeen is a slovenly jurist and that the natives of that section are an illiterate and slightly amusing populace.
It has been my privelidge to meet Judge Skeen and as I lived in Wise County for several years I know a good many of its inhabitants and have found most of them to be well bred and cultured people and if a correction of this impression is made by TIME I am sure the Wise Countians will appreciate a curteous gesture from what I consider the nation's leading current topics magazine.
J. T. JOHNSTON
Johnson City, Tenn.
Sirs:
Can't the energy that stirred women's clubs once in late years to flower-deck a murderess' transcontinental trainride bring Schoolmar'm Edith Maxwell a venue change and new trial?
Come on, women!
SAM H. BUSKIRK
Los Angeles, Calif.
Last week Judge H. A. W. Skeen denied Edith Maxwell a new trial, granted a 60-day suspension of sentence to permit filing an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.--ED.
Sirs:
. . . No sob sympathizer with the average murderer or murderess, I nevertheless feel that Edith Maxwell did not receive a fair trial.
Can anything be done to help her? Can the force of public opinion be brought to bear upon the people of Wise to give her a new trial? . . .
M. GLADYS MUeLLER
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Business & Professional Women's Club appealed for funds to aid Edith Maxwell. After investigation, the Club returned donations with the report that: 1) Edith Maxwell was being represented by able counsel; 2) Her trial had been a fair one; 3) Ample funds for her defense were being provided by a Hearst news syndicate.--ED.
Congratulations; Rot
Sirs:
Congratulations to the Italian high command for their attitude as reported under Tariff. TIME, p. 15, Dec. 2.
Much improved over the puritanism of our commanders during the World War.
Hats off to fearless TIME in reporting such a necessary evil.
LEE STOUGH Omaha, Neb.
Sirs:
A medal to Corporal Mussolini for giving his private soldiers a two-way advantage over their pleasure seeking officers.
HAROLD D. PORTER
Tacoma, Wash.
Sirs:
... I have seen much rot in my time but never so raw a thing as you publish. I am no purity leaguer, but I am done with TIME.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE Portland, Ore.
Apologies for Muff
Sirs:
When St. Louis finally breaks through the smoke and presents to the nation at large a first-class scandal it seems too bad that TIME, ablest historian of our day, has to muff it.
May I suggest that you check ... as to the authenticity of the photograph of Miss Anna Ware (TIME, Dec. 16).
From where I sit and feebly try to make out the countenance, it looks strangely like one Mrs. Helen Berroyer, a colleague of Mrs. Muench in the Ware-Muench case. L. B. LEIGHTON
St. Louis, Mo.
To International News Photos a rebuke for labeling a picture of Mrs. Helen Berroyer as that of Anna Ware. To Mrs. Berroyer and Miss Ware TIME'S apologies. --ED.
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