Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people are watching every move made by both the lawyers for the Government and the defense, in order to find out whether rich men can thwart the process of justice by having a staff of able attorneys or whether witnesses can remain abroad indefinitely after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel...
...been denied me. "The repeated, published assertion of your president that he will put the superintendent out; the degradation of your school system in the eyes of the entire country by editorial condemnation of this trial as a farce and vaudeville; the cloud of aspersion you permit to remain on your best teachers that they recommended to the superintendent the adoption of poisoned books; the effect on your school children of the "continued newspaper characterization of your proceedings as a travesty on justice; the repeated and uncontradicted editorial designation of this trial as before a packed jury and an admittedly...
...persons long acquainted with U. S. politics withheld prediction. A speech is only a speech, they said, and thinking is only thinking. Lost arts, they said, are discussed at institutes of arts and sciences, but they remain, .after all, lost arts. U. S. politics remain U. S. politics. It is far too soon to say whether Senator Borah or any one else can transform the topic about which U. S. citizens think and feel the most, from the great Hush-Hush of the politicians in both parties to the one real issue of the campaign...
...receive telegrams to indicate that the cabinet was dissatisfied. At last they culminated in a request to us that we return home for consultation. We pointed out that such a procedure would be very bad for the success of the negotiations, and for a time were allowed to remain...
...Story: Of all human desires none find more panders than the desire to deceive, to make a false effect. For those who are unbeautiful, chemists have always been able to find, in paint and rouge, a cunning disguise; powder has permitted the dirty to remain unwashed and undetected; wigs are for those who can grow no hair; magicians, incapable of miracles, can conjure up an appearance of supernatural; many a pretentious coping is built, as i to protect the high rooms of some splendid mansion, along an untenanted rood; the vase with one broken handle faces the world with...