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...methods. What gives him courage and turns his face hopefully toward the future is the certain knowledge that better economic times will bring him better political times. Well within the realm of possibility ?in fact most Republicans count on it? is a mighty upturn toward prosperity which will blot out the President's misfortunes and missteps of 1930-31 and restore him, sobered from his bout with adversity, to the peaks of popularity in time for the 1932 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Halfway | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...said that "the money is merely so much back pay, and is not charity or a gift. The fact that it will be paid on Christmas is merely a coincidence." He added that many Harvard men "were glad to make right" what they deemed an injustice and a blot on Harvard's reputation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCRUBWOMEN WILL RECEIVE 'BACK PAY' | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

...payment at this time of $3,880 "back pay" by a group of alumni satisfies the sense of duty of the contributors, who consider the whole affair a "blot on Harvard." It will doubtless also be welcome to the former employees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST WORD | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

...have been raided two or three times within a week. ... The Crusaders of New York regret that they are unable, for a mechanical reason, to make up a similar map of Manhattan. ... So many dots would be required on it that the re sult would be merely a large blot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Crusade | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...repudiations as trustworthy ... it may be only just and right to consider . . . such witnesses in the case of Billings, just as I should desire to do in the case of Mooney. ... If [Mooney] was innocent of this particular crime, to keep him in prison would be an ineffaceable blot upon the good name of the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: California's Witness | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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