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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (to Harlem voters): "Now that the old man is not here I can confess I like some of your nightclubs...
...Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...
TIME'S English, though often highly informal, is usually pretty good. I must confess, however, that the headline "Neighbor, How Art Thee?" on p. 12 of the current issue [TIME, July 1] almost paralyzes...
Professor Banse concluded: "We confess that it gives us pleasure to meditate on the destruction that must sooner or later overtake this proud and seemingly invincible nation. . . . The above sentences would appear monstrous, nay rank blasphemy, to every Englishman and Englishwoman in the world-if they ever saw them...
...courage, has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation." The only ability he has demonstrated is that of a Senatorial stooge, a Republican wheelhorse devoid of any legislative originality. His extraordinary political courage has enabled him to confess his inadequacy to improve the conditions which he attacks. Belching sedative tablets from his guns of oratory, Senator Taft in his last two speeches, the only ones in which he has "dealt" with foreign policy, has betrayed woeful incompetence to frame the simplest of arguments. Even with a brilliant record...