Word: confess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courage, has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation." The only ability he has demonstrated is that of a Senatorial stooge, a Republican wheelhorse devoid of any legislative originality. His extraordinary political courage has enabled him to confess his inadequacy to improve the conditions which he attacks. Belching sedative tablets from his guns of oratory, Senator Taft in his last two speeches, the only ones in which he has "dealt" with foreign policy, has betrayed woeful incompetence to frame the simplest of arguments. Even with a brilliant record...
...They are all pumping hard for their common claim that unemployment has dropped to the two million level of pre-depression days. Each maintains that the bad old New Dealers know that joblessness is no longer a real problem, but won't admit it, because then "they must confess the success of the American system, and they won't do that." Their arguments are, as a Supreme Court Justice has put it, "interesting but only mildly persuasive...
...Department of Justice investigators believe that Earl Browder is a mere frontman, are not sure whom to call Joseph Stalin's chief deputy in the U. S. Nominated for this honor last week (by ex-Communist Benjamin Gitlow, in a book called I Confess) was comrade Jack Stachel, who recently skedaddled from Manhattan to parts unknown...
...CONFESS-Benjiamin Gitlow-Dutton...