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Cancellation of the French debt is not in question. Premier Herriot has made it plain that all France asks is time to acquit herself honorably. In the midst of debate hot words have been uttered both in the French Chamber and in the American Senate. It is now high time statesmen return to sanity and newspapers to the truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "COME' ACROSS, MARIANNE!" | 1/28/1925 | See Source »

...think the ethics, the principles and the conventionalities of business through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit him of wrong doing; the straight thinker knows that his error was in making the investment at all losses or gains have nothing to do with the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEN MILLION ENDOWMENT DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY | 4/1/1924 | See Source »

...only the number of miles a car has run, but also the rate of speed during any part of the trip. Despite the fact that no recording speedometer has been perfected, the new law makes it compulsory for every car to carry one. This automatic evidence will both acquit the innocent and convict the guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Tell-Tale Speedometer | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!" This is the impression which Mr. Bradford sets out to give of these seven?as he admits?"paley damaged" and very miscellaneous souls. He makes no attempt to acquit them of their faults, but by showing the light in which they saw themselves, the damage seems more the result of circumstance than of intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Motives* | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...always sucessful. Mr. Charlton as Doctor Garret is too repressed he finds it so easy to look grim and sad that he frequently overdoes it. In "The End of the Bridge", the Boston Stock Company has got hold of a very difficult, though interesting, piece. All in all, they acquit themselves creditably, if no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PRIZE PLAY AT ST. JAMES | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

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