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Confession. "I came out of college thinking that Theodore Roosevelt, whom I admired profoundly, was in this respect eccentric, that he kept harping on the Panama Canal and the navy. For in my youth we all assumed . . . that war was an affair that 'militarists' talked about and not...
The confession was provoked by the Cambridge City Council. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, old foe of Harvard,* had persuaded from the Council an order to compel the University Overseers to surrender the statues as scrap metal.
Confession of Faith. This week, on Washington's Birthday, the President made his second broadcast in ten days. In the first, he had discussed 1943's grand strategy ; there were many who hoped his second would deal with the home front.
Franklin Roosevelt chose to make a grand confession of faith:
Each weekday morning Oliver the physician, wearing a bailiff's brass badge pinned to his waistcoat, let himself into a dingy little room in Baltimore's Court House. It was a simple place, filing cases bulging with records of human wretchedness, a medicine table, a first-aid kit...