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...commend you for the shining exception to the welter of hypocrisy and deliberate falsification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Devlis' Holiday" | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

...Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide efficient and sane management of the affairs of Government should commend themselves to every thoughtful citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Politics & Appropriations | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Next Capone heard the Dade County grand jury refer to him as follows: "We endorse, commend and urge all legitimate efforts to exterminate from this community . . . a cancerous growth. The efforts of State's Attorney Hawthorne toward what is nationally recognized as a menace, a public impostor and an enemy to organized government are of paramount importance. . . . We urge all law-abiding citizens to give their unstinted cooperation to the end that 'Scarface Al' Capone, his accomplices and their sinister influences shall not continue to be inflicted upon . . . Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone in Court | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

However much one feels inclined to commend the action of the Sophomore Class officers, there can be little praise for their attempt to let the Smoker die without a hearing before the class. It is reasonably certain that the Sophomores would wholly approve of the decision of their officers in abolishing so futile a custom, but it is regrettable that these officers should feel it necessary to let the Smoker pass away without the bare courtesy of an obituary announcement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOPHOMORE SMOKER | 4/25/1930 | See Source »

Please allow me, as one of the undergraduate body, to commend your helpful, sensible, and courageous "Confidential Guide"--with the hope that the criticism therein may be as effectual as in the case of Gov. 1. Frederick Thon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/25/1929 | See Source »

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