Letters: Sep. 8, 1930

Mrs. Hoover & Bottle

Sirs: You stooped pretty low in your picturing of Mrs. Hoover on the title page of TIME for Aug. 18. Your accompanying letter press expressly quotes her as saying she got a thrill when her hand touched the prow of the mighty vessel which she used the bottle of water in christening. Yet you quote her words "a real thrill" under a picture which shows her holding the basketed bottle in a setting which offers the observer no suggestion of a ship or any connection with the object for which...

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