Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sophisticated, pathetically childish, wary, scornful and suspicious." They should be given stories written for adults of meagre intelligence, especially those of girls who rise above unfortunate surroundings. Some penologists stuff education into prisoners, like meat into a sausage. But knowledge is a power that can be used for evil as well as good...
...desires good, but He also permits evil, and our saddest thought is that it is our own sons who work evil against other good sons who are dear...
...Last week President Hoover received and turned over to the Press another report from his National Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, which has sunk into anticlimactic obscurity since it dealt with Prohibition. Its findings dealt with prosecutions. As all the world knows it discovered an evil link between criminal organizations and local politics. Declared the report: "In some cases campaign funds are derived from what amounts to licensed violations of the law." It found that the grand jury had ceased to be an agency for real criminal investigation, advised that it be done away with as a source of indictments...
Chief of those "sons who worked evil" fortnight ago, by charging that Azione Cattolica (the Italian League for Catholic Action) was busy with a Catholic plot to seize the Italian State, and who forthwith padlocked some 15,000 Catholic clubs throughout Italy (TIME, June 8), was of course Benito Mussolini...
...Hebronian comment on the practice of week ending, printed elsewhere in these columns, goes to show the extent to which that evil has penetrated the American system of education...