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Assuredly the government of the United States has a responsibility towards those who will eventually constitute the nation. If the government permits so stupid a controversy as that over the war-debts to blacken America in the eyes of the world, thus paving the way for possible future strife, it will more than deserve the increasing distrust with which its policies are being watched by American students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR HANGOVERS | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure to explain it to the country were part of a general Administrative attempt to blacken the preceding Republican Administration and thereby make political ammunition for the November elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Army Takes Over | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry an nounced a program to reassure her uneasy citizens. The French air force will stage a mass flight of its own. Twenty-two bombers will set out in October from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sailing Storm Trooper | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into court, demanded $200,000 damages for an attempt "to injure and aggrieve Bonfils and to blacken his good name and reputation." Also he requested that the three defendants be "committed to the common jail of the city & county . . . until whatever judgment obtained against them has been paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Can't Take It? | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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