Letters: May 23, 1927

$1,000,000 Car

Sirs: Your statement that a private train costing $375,000 has just been purchased for the President of Mexico (TIME, May 9) is robbed of all significance by your failure to allude to the practice of sleeping in an ordinary "lower" which is observed by the President of the United States.* Let me tell you that our President gains nothing by this practice, and certainly our country gains nothing. Is there a man or woman in the U. S. who would have less respect for our President...

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