Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much as I sympathize with Mr. Craik Morris' letter in TIME [Oct. 10], I would like to call an important fact to his attention...
...states: "I am a miner"-but the tapering, lily-white hand that he so proudly displays in your picture seems to belie the fact that he has ever done a day's manual labor in his life...
...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
...more imposing than the statistics was the fact that the case had only begun. It would be months before U.S. justice rendered its final verdict. Legal questions posed by the trial engaged lawyers, lawmakers, journalists. Far more would have to be decided than the fate of eleven sworn and cynical enemies of U.S. democracy. Enemies though they were, they had forced U.S. democracy to make a worried examination of itself. Men asked: Wasn't the very trial a violation of the basic rights of U.S. citizens...
Whether clear and present danger could be shown or not, the fact of the matter was that the Reds intended to bring their plans to fruition "at the earliest time that circumstances would permit...