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Your apt description of Edward A. Filene as a "rich old Boston merchant . . . talking liberalism" printed in TIME, May 24, interested me no less than its refutation in the letter written by Mr. Joseph Warren Bishop Jr. [TIME, June 14]. It seemed to me that TIME did not err, was right as usual...
...always first come best served. Some places and times there are no rules. In some cases there are, but brave is the man who attempts to describe just what they are when they are. To err when speaking on this subject would be fatal...
...Every professional lobbyist, every professional politician and every representative of greed and monopoly is hoping and praying that your work will be a failure. . . . Your constituents do not expect perfection. They know that it is human to err, but they do expect and have a right to expect absolute honesty, unlimited courage and a reasonable degree of efficiency and wisdom. . . . From now on Nebraska has a right to expect a business administration...
...Err is Human, To Forget Divine...
...human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government...