Letters, Dec. 18, 1933

Senator's Shooting-irons

Sirs:

Some months ago, perhaps back in September, your magazine offended me greatly by saying that my friends call me ''Colonel" (TIME, Oct. 9). That is just naturally not true. I have been called nearly everything else, but I let it be known down in Kentucky many years ago that I kept shooting irons and that if any person, male or female, Jew or Gentile, black, white, yellow, red or brown, should ever apply that epithet ''Colonel" to me, I would use the shooting-irons so they would do the most harm in...

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