Word: honester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PLEASE HELP ME REMAIN AN HONEST ALDERMAN...
...Manhattan millinery trade have known Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile...
...Powe, Mobile's lottery king and ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to seven years in prison, his fellow conspirators to terms ranging from 18 months to five years. Their convictions will be appealed. Solicitor Chamberlain was acquitted, but resigned two days later. What had happened to honest, courageous, but perverted Editor Ewald, no one in Mobile knew...
...work. For Buchmanites it has not been enough to propagate, among "key people," the doctrine of God's direct and special "guidance" of his favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly that the world is in a bad way, that some-thing needs to be done...
...result of their cramming. And again, because such tutoring mocks Harvard's standards and degrades her degree, it should be exterminated. If the tutoring is by Wolff, let the diploma be by Wolff, but not by Harvard. It is further undesirable because it destroys initiative and the will to honest toil; because it makes students lazily dependent upon a crutch they would not otherwise...