Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury in its effort to collect back taxes from Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, was now abandoning criminal prosecution in income tax cases, would henceforth stick to civil action. ¶ Of all the many millionaires who lost fortunes in the 1929 stockmarket crash none has been more eager to admit it than Funnyman Eddie Cantor. In 20 days he lost the $2,000,000 that it had taken him 20 years to save. Recouping in part by sales of 'his book Caught Short, he described himself as ''not in the market but under it.'' Eddie Cantor...
...hang at 5,000 ft. until dawn, he had pulled his gas escape valve. The valve stuck open. Then it was recalled that during the last-minute fanfare the valve had been opened & closed several times while those near the balloon listened for escaping gas. Commander Settle later admitted that he was not quite positive the valve was completely closed as he took off, but was unwilling to spoil the show with further delay. The Chicago Daily News, which had financed and ballyhooed the flight (with the Exposition and National Broadcasting Co.) refused to admit defeat. Stubbornly it boasted...
...Hulburt, editor of A. O. A. publications: "The osteopathic physician holds that it is a part of his duty to find and remove various disease causes, including bad environment or faulty habits. He uses antiseptics when the skin or mucous membrane is broken or cut to admit infection, but for the great mass of disease germs which invade the body and constitute infections, he believes that if the body machine is in proper adjustment, it will itself make all the remedies it needs. When necessary the osteopathic practitioner uses anesthetics and surgery...
...thinking. I believe Babbitt to have been one of the most stimulating teachers who has ever held a university chair anywhere. The contemporary world is full of men who have been influenced unconsciously by him. Walter Lippmann contains more of Babbitt than either he or Babbitt would care to admit. In this case neither the debtor nor the creditor are heroes to one another...
...cold to this proposal, began to discuss adjourning the Conference on July 26 "for at least two months" but were halted by a fresh emotional plea from Mr. Hull. "I do not see," cried he to correspondents, "how the Conference statesmen can go home to their starving people and admit they have failed to achieve anything...