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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss to stockholders and ironically enough, the large Insull lenders were also Insull owners. It has blasted public confidence in investment through a vast and wealthy region. And now everyone wants Mr. Insull to come back and see what he can do with Middle West; they are willing to admit that the man who is supposed to have lost their money for them is the only man who has much prospect of getting it back again. Samuel Insull did not pervert the systems of capitalistic finance, and he is not a big had wolf. Only in the crescendo does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/9/1934 | See Source »

...payment of interest being tainted in his mind with a stigma not unlike that attached by President Roosevelt to hoarding. So hot grew the squabbling of U. S. private creditors for their interest in Berlin last week that Dr. Schacht rushed off for a rest to Kiel. "I admit the necessity of paying interest on borrowed capital," said he, "but the common good should be considered before all else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Luther on the Carpet | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with his ideals and policy, can go elsewhere. And even the most patriotic of Harvard men would admit, (perhaps on second thought), that there are other universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As You Like It | 1/31/1934 | See Source »

...Administration is committed to a policy of trial and error. This censorship of broadcasting has been given a trial; now admit that it was an error and change the ruling. Imagine the reaction of listeners to Mr. Roosevelt's words-read in the pseudo-Oxonian accents of a typical announcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...whom she has always been in love. A onetime ambassador now, a rich man of the world, he breaks another idol when he tells her why and how he left her. In 1925 her father finally dies, a driveling idiot. But up to the very end Sara will not admit to anyone but herself that her father was not a great man, a worthy statesman, a good husband, a beloved father. Before that she has ample proof that all is not well in her family. Her sister Charlotte runs off with a ham actor. Rumors of her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time in Reverse | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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