Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos of same, may I not state the fact, of no particular significance but probably interesting to many, that Francis Scott Key, who, while a prisoner of war, penned those immortal lines, was, in religion, a Roman Catholic...
...Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times...
...magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State Legislature; and when, after hearing no testimony except...
...flayed in a decision which said: "It appears that while the legislative department of the Government has deliberately and intentionally made the purchaser of liquor guiltless of any offense under the Prohibition law, the executive department of the government seeks here, by indirection, to make the same fact, namely the purchase, a crime subjecting the purchasers to a maximum fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for a term of two years...
...promised to consolidate the enforcement and prosecuting arms of the Federal Prohibition forces in one Department of the Government. Now, six months after Inauguration, nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice. So he called again for great-voiced John McNab...