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...TIME regrets that the statement in question gave a wrong impression, hopes that its story did not similarly err on the side of overenthusiasm...
...Government will err sadly if it attempts a heavy handed settlement of industrial dissension. The problems is not one to be resolved over night, and when the solution is found it will be in the sphere of labor-management cooperation. Labor is still smarting from the searing humiliation of years of shoddy treatment. Like a Charles Atlas alumnus it is flaunting its new-found power; while management has not yet realized the full potentialities of accepting labor as a responsible and equal partner...
...says your article on him was "not only untrue but vulgar to the extreme." You did not even have the courtesy to reply, merely "Conductor Dunbar herewith sees his letter, but no apology." Are we readers expected to naively assume that TIME cannot err...
...Communist paper print an article entitled "Allow Us to Err"? A newspaper in the Ukraine, where the new Soviet purge is at its peak, dared to do so last week. "Absurd," thundered Pravda. "This theory of the right to err really means . . . the right to be free from criticism. . . . Workers' officials who are unable to review their work critically are unable to go forward and are cowards and provincials...
Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, sailed into a meeting of Republican women in Philadelphia with a bouquet of raspish phrases. After referring to "delirium Trumans" and observing that "to err is Truman" (both times neglecting to credit the phrases to Gossipist Walter Winchell, who shortly set the record straight), she widened her traverse and characterized the Democratic Party: "a freak of nature . . . with a Communist front, a reactionary rear, and a know-nothing middle...