Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, last week, opened a column by the New Deal's most doctrinaire supporter among columnists, mousy, 44-year-old "Jay Franklin" (real name: John Franklin Carter). Columnist Franklin then almost gluttonously ate the words of his column of a few days earlier. In it he had attacked "the...
The War Department last December confessed to some sad bungles in Army construction (TIME, Dec. 23). A further confession was added last week, but also a showing that Army performance had improved since the Corps of Engineers' able Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell moved in on the Quartermaster Corps...
Their favorites, however, are the fantastic characters who have dialed the University number in the bleak stretch between two and seven in the morning. An elderly anti-vivisectionist, convinced that Harvard Medical School had stolen his Angora, tried to wheedle a confession of catnapping out of the switchboard workers. Weirder...
The book is a case history of the struggle between the popular and the judiciary's ideas of the general welfare. Mr. Jackson's score card is damaging to the Court's record, for he shows convincingly that time has never once vindicated the Court in any...
The Finance Minister obliged by tendering his resignation last week. He made it stick in spite of Acting President Ramón S. Castillo's refusal to accept it. Juan Pueblo was not sure whether the resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a...