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...hour later Mr. Young was back at 120 Broadway, behind his business-like desk, facing reporters. For a whole month he has refused to talk; but now he put words like pistol shots, with candor and precision. More was learned in five minutes about the new Committee and what it purposes to accomplish than correspondents have been able to guess in the last six months...
...Useful Knowledge group, each one of the present society's 436 members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth's sake...
...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...
With stark, brutal candor the Soviet State announced, last week, through its official news organ Isvestia, that savage and murderous resistance to the Soviet Power is now being made by members of the Kulak or "Rich Peasant" class-the class most relentlessly taxed by Moscow's sovereign Proletariat...
...arch-Democratic New York World pointed out, however, that Nominee Hoover had not yet said flatly that he favored Federal operation. The World laughed at the Scripps-Howard chain-papers and called the Hoover postscripts "shadow-boxing." Vexed but honest, the chain-papers admitted that the Hoover candor had not been perfect. They said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting...