Dreiser on Tacoma
Sirs:
In the Book Review Section of TIME for the week of Feb. 8, the following statement was quoted from the book Tragic America by Theodore Dreiser.
". . . in Tacoma, Wash., 'on Feb. 19, 1931, . . . 16 men were poisoned by food from the Volunteers of America soup kitchen, from which four died.' "
... I need hardly tell you that this statement, appearing in your magazine even as a quotation, will do untold hurt to our work. The Volunteers of America are feeding 4,000 people a day in...
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