Men of the Year
Sirs:
Considerable speculation exists in this snow-bound college town concerning the identity of TIME'S 1933 Man of the Year. Current betting runs as follows:
Hitler-6-to-5
Roosevelt-3-to-2
Some Jap or Russian-10-to-1
Dark horse leaping into prominence in the last six weeks of the year-20-to-1
This is perhaps off the record: but I will be interested in seeing what confirmation, if any, the event accords.
CHARLES CASSIL REYNARD
Hiram. Ohio
What Man-of-the-Year bets are other readers making?—ED.
Dollar Reports
Sirs: Congratulations to the Editors of TIME! Welcome to your temperate and painstaking reports of this year's all-important monetary developments, when even the leading metropolitan dailies have apparently forsaken the respectable tradition of impartiality in their news columns, to propagandize for what they choose to call a sound dollar. Of particular social value are your candid, intelligible, impartial discussions of this difficult subject, when so many we read are drivel and buncombe. Congratulations!
ROBERT V. HORTON
New York City
For last week's monetary news, see p. 7.—ED.
Vermont Footnote
Sirs:
On P. 47 of your issue of Oct. 30, there appears the story of the receivership of the National Life Insurance Company of the U. S. A.
Unlike most publications giving this news, you took occasion to effectively explain in a footnote that the National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier, Vt., was in no way involved in this receivership.
We already have evidence of the far-reaching effect of your considerable comment, and wish to express appreciation for the protection which you gave the National Life (of Vermont) through your explanatory note.
This incident confirms the impression I had previously formed, and expressed, of the completeness and thoroughness which characterize the information appearing in your magazine.
FRED A. ROWLAND
President
National Life Insurance Co. Montpelier, Vt.
Mink for $150
Sirs: TIME Nov. 13 outlines Fur Trade and Fur Farming Industry briefly, clearly. TIME does err in one particular, the price of select breeding mink. $300 a pair for breeding mink is reminiscent of the promotion days of fur farming when silver foxes sold for $5,000 a pair, frequently earning large dividends on the enormous investment. Today's prices of breeding stock based on fur value. Fur farmers today glad to get half the prices quoted by TIME for select Alaska, Quebec, Labrador mink. ROY D. HARMAN
Virginia Silver Fox Farms Christiansburg, Va.
Jew & German
Sirs:
In your publication of the 13th, I see a caption under an illustration, on p. 10, under National Affairs, with photo of the Hon. Samuel Untermyer, reading "Jew Untermyer."
This rather raw exhibition impels me to say to you that it is beyond comprehension in these times, in this stage of human instability, that you should display so little tact, to say the least, as to flaunt your anti-semitic tendencies before the eyes of your readers.
... To all appearances, your magazine is subsidized in the main, by the fanatics who have now self-imposed themselves in Germany.
HARRY C. NEUBERGER
New York City