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Senator Pomerene does not err in fearing a loss of smooth operative efficiency with the Corporation records available to all. He might once have been correct in regretting the unfounded, distrust of the beneficiary banks which would obtain among certain portions of the people. But no pure consideration of expediency, however strong, should invalidate the very real right of the public to accurate knowledge of the financial functions of its government. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has no prerogative to the secrecy which has been denied the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Federal Reserve Board. Although it is futile to talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "VICIOUS" REVELATIONS | 3/15/1933 | See Source »

Editor Evans hopes to make a good deal of money from his new venture. He maintains that advertisers err in shying from a give-away circulation. "Billboards, car cards and the radio give free circulation, don't they?'' Last week he was delighted that his publication was one of four picked by Gotham Hosiery for its new runless stocking campaign. Circulation last week was 350,000. Editor Evans hopes to increase it to 3,000,000, distribute his journal through 15,000 stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Graduates of Life | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...purpose of the play was to provide as much farcical comedy as possible--and this is the obvious, indeed the only sensible interpretation--then the authors err in exaggerating the fiendishness and small wickedness of the mother, Mabel Dixon Church, who would stoop to any depths to attain her selfish designs. Her machinations insert all too many semi-tragic lapses into the general hilarity for the best enjoyment of the authors' genius for the ridiculous in incident and character...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/10/1932 | See Source »

Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule...

Author: By O. E. F. and E. E. M., S | Title: THE CRIME | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

Rare indeed does TIME err. But occasionally an error slips in ... and not without purpose. It may be but a reminder that after all you are human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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