Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neither statesman would confess to having a "plan" to champion. Neither could afford to embarrass the other by seeming to "win." Neither must "lose." It was all most difficult. President and Premier worked at what they called "exchanging views." Their views on Security, they found, were totally opposed (President Hoover being unwilling and unable to get a U. S. Congress to vote guarantees of French Security), but they did not ''disagree." They exchanged other views. After immense constructive effort President Hoover and Premier Laval told what they had done in a joint communiqué to the World Press...
...Orleans, the College's president, in red-collared academic robe and gold-tasseled mortarboard cap, upbraided lay critics of medical men. He denounced "those articles in magazines whose standards, one used to believe, were rather higher than the publication of half truths and misrepresentations and downright falsehoods. I confess that a rather unworthy suspicion has crossed my mind that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than it has been for our defenders Here & there a physician has raised his voice, not always, I am sorry to say, with very profound wisdom, but lay defenders...
...Government and pay a delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read over the strenuous objections of Snorkey's attorneys, who maintained a lawyer could not "confess" for his client, Attorney Fink heaved a sigh. "Oh, my conscience!" he sighed. "They've got him nailed to the cross...
...biggest crime of its nature in U. S. history (TIME, Sept. 4). Although Criminal Wolf had a conference with Chief Justice Harry M. Fisher before the trial and quoted the Bible glibly, he was accorded no leniency because during his twelve years of theft he made no attempt to confess until he thought auditors were tracking him down. Chicagoans, pleased by the unexpected swiftness of Justice, continued to pun about "keeping the Wolf from the door...
...Matthias, to his friend Timberlake, to Natalie; Garth's memory haunts them. Moved by a common impulse, Natalie and Timberlake meet at the place where Garth died - a great rock that looks like an Egyptian tomb, with a hole in it that looks like a door. They confess they love each other, and Matthias sees them. When Matthias accuses her, Natalie is honest with him, tells him she has always loved Timberlake. They try to patch things up; Timberlake goes away. One day after a quarrel Natalie is missing. Matthias finds her body down in the woods, where Garth...