Word: incorrection
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...college officials and teachers appreciate the fact. The attitude of some of these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence all the sources of information. Therefore, if an accurate and official statement is not made of all current events with news value, then...
...your issue of Feb. 11, in your article on the dedication of the Singing Tower, you say that President Coolidge called the bells by the Americanized version of "karilon." As one who attended the dedication and heard all the speeches, I hasten to tell you that your informant was incorrect. President Coolidge was the only one present who said carillon in the French manner. All those connected with the building of the Tower call it "Karilon," with the accent on the first syllable...
...Gentlemen, this is a fraud. Any time you give me information in order to pass or defeat legislation and that information is incorrect, that is fraud...
Subscriber Brandon's impressions are entirely incorrect. Many a Jew, many a Protestant, at least one Agnostic, many a Social Registerite belongs to Tammany, of which Members Horatio Seymour (1868), Samuel J. Tilden (1876) ran for President on the Democratic ticket...
...claimed that through some failure of Governor Hiram W. Johnson and Charles Evans Hughes to get together, Candidate Hughes lost California and the election, in November 1916. Each statement that you have made regarding this incident has been different and each one that I have read has been incorrect. It happens that I am quite familiar with the facts concerning the relations of these...