Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acts charged, to let Septuagenarian Insull take full responsibility. BUT the defense was also out to show that the acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment when Depression...
...therefore to be gainsayed, that a little knowledge, particularly if it be distorted knowledge, is a dangerous thing. And this is the reason why any person with claims to the shadow of sense earnestly prays that someday the public school teacher may be able to follow some such path as that outlined by Dr. Wilson, and become rather less of a menace to intelligence and good government...
...Which route shall we take," they shouted in one accord, but alas, none could agree, and they all picked out a different path to those historic grounds. One chose Plympton and then the Parkway, but that was being repaired, so that would never do. Then came a cry for Linden, but that too was up and they could not pass, what about Boylston, one of the crowd, a tackle, sang out, "oh, good," they cried in unison and so they all set out with light hearts and happy feet for Boylston, and then the Stadium, and all that lay behind...
...augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover...
...Morris. Ill., John Prombo saw a cow chewing her cud in the path of a speeding train. Racing down the railroad tracks, he coaxed, tugged, pushed, could not budge the placid animal. In the instant before the train was upon them, the cow loped safely off the tracks. The engine killed John Prombo...