Word: factual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Liberal Star expressed "amazement at the orgy of violence which marked Chicago's municipal elections," and the blatant Daily Mail gave the impression that every Chicagoan who voted did so in imminent peril of being bombed. Even factual Times cried emotionally that "in Chicago every man's hand seems to be raised against his fellow and the preponderating mass of law-abiding citizens is almost powerless to check the orgy of violence...
...Business. Stories of the industry and honesty of young Herrick beggar those of the hatchet, the cherry tree. Legendary is the $8,000 note, endorsed for a slippery friend, which the young lawyer and his wife voluntarily made good, though he knew a legal quibble which invalidated his endorsement. Factual was and is the Society for Savings, a bank operated in the interests of depositor-members, with which Mr. Herrick early associated himself and of which he is now Chairman of the Board. Success and wealth were his with the turn of the century. From then Myron Timothy Herrick enlarged...
...activities and work of these institutions which the CRIMSON's new feature, will attempt to present. Along with the purely factual presentation of the news dealing with such matters as new acquisitions and exhibitions it is intended to give a more or less critical and in any case authoritative discussion of the subject by some one fitted to do so. In this way it is expected that not only will the various museums and the libraries receive more just and intelligent comment, but also that those interested in the matters which the column will take up will be furnished with...
...years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which culminated...
...Jack Grey of the Graphic insisted that he had been in the death house. He said Boston was his home town and that he "had influence" there. He refused to tell how he got into the death house; or to tell where he stood. He refused to give any factual information at all or to be photographed. The city editor of the Graphic said that Mr. Grey had told him he was in the death house, and that he had had to accept his word...