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Perceiving that he had blundered, Senator Reed shifted his attack from the Press to the unnamed tattling Senator. With correspondents glaring at him from the gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senate v. Press | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

"Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil things against you falsely, for my sake.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Democratic Deficit | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

"The so-called 'Harvard indifference' as it actually exists, strikes me as being one of the most commendable aspects of university life. It is a large happiness, though usually unappreciated, that Harvard upperclassmen do not persecute freshmen: that there is no law calling for universal 'hello's' in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

"He is not a just man and therefore it is never certain whether his great gifts of cross-examination and invective will be employed to prosecute the guilty or to persecute those whose views he happens to dislike. He is a man of deep and reckless prejudices. No one surpasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reed Boom | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Harlan Fiske Stone, latest addition (1925) to the Supreme Court, is its youngest, biggest, strapping-strongest member. He is but 55, He was graduated by Amherst College the year before Calvin Coolidge, in 1894. For 14 years (1910-24) he was Columbia University's Dean of Law and spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Supreme Convention | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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