Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 19, 1930). At that time a French businessman and collector named Michaux discovered that a Millet painting for which he had paid 150,000 francs was a forgery. Police called at the shop of Grandson Millet from whom the picture had been bought, found him ready to confess...
...before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were arraigned eleven other high Gay-pay-oo chiefs. In Russia today the accused always confess when their case is of importance to the State. Last week's trial was no exception. According to the State's press handout, the Gay-pay-oo chiefs confessed that the Gay-pay-oo knew Stalin's friend Kirov was threatened with assassination, did nothing to prevent...
...confess all this talk about the Roosevelt Birthday Ball makes me sick. How can you do anything about infantile paralysis until you know what causes it Only a small part of the money is to be used for research into the causes of the disease the rest for so-called prevention and cures. Anyway, the trouble is not primarily with a lack of funds for research. We've got money to spend but we haven't got enough ideas on the subject. I wouldn't have written this if I hadn't just spoken with two internationally know medical research...
...grim axiom of Soviet trials is "They Always Confess." Last week that axiom again proved sound in Leningrad where Joseph Stalin was having privately polished off a group of redoubtable Old Bolsheviks-some older than Stalin in the Communist aristocracy founded by Nikolai Lenin...
This is a thoroughly unhealthy attitude on the part of the authorities. In expressing their preference for female service they have admitted much of the wrong that is in their system. They confess that their methods of discipline are too unreasonable for even the most docile undergraduate, that they could get away much more successfully with petty tyranny exercised over professional waitresses who are less apt, to cry out against conditions. There can be no other reason why outside help should be preferred, unless it is the arrangement of more convenient hours, because student waiters are certainly on the average...