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...They must justify their stand, or confess ignorance of what's been going on," he said last night. "If they do the latter, I'll ask them to withdraw gracefully from the contest. As a matter of fact, I expect either to be completely ignored or subjected to a bitter personal attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophmore Runs for Brookline School Committee; Calls Members 'Stooges' | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Before Parliament adjourned for its Christmas recess, to meet again on January 31, youthful Dominions & Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald warned the House of Commons that Britain must soon find a policy to increase her birth rate for the "highest imperial reasons." "I confess I cannot do anything about it," added Mr. MacDonald, a bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reasons | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

During the acute stage of the Moscow Trials, when one famed old Bolshevik after another was being convicted of "Trotskyism" and shot, newspaper cartoonists in many lands spontaneously got the same idea. They drew the Dictator facing his reflection in a looking glass and shouting: "Traitor, confess! You too are a Trotskyist!" Last week there were epochal goings on in Moscow which made such cartoons even more appropriate than during the Trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Loud Pedal | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...appreciation to learn that Degas' dancing girls were "almost vicious in their vices," and "Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity (sic!) which can hardly be excelled and his handling of many different bodily postures is expert in the highest degree!" What imbecile would be willing to confess to writing such tripe. Yours truly, Albert K. Cohen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

Like Murderer Robert Irwin, who telephoned the Herex last year to confess the killing of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon, Suspects Kolesiak and Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ring-Around-The-Rosy | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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