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...were responsible for their suicide, which in turn would decide their right to Christian burial. Next he had to deal with the deplorable scandal of an Anglican curate's son breaking the Fifth Commandment, Honor thy father and thy mother. Last week he publicly adjured James Bunting to repent of his sins, informed him that until further notice he may not partake of Holy Communion in any church in the diocese of Chichester...
Twice has Comrade Zinoviev organized opposition to Comrade Stalin's policies within the Party (TIME. Oct. 24, 1932). Twice has Stalin permitted him abjectly to repent and eat crow. Last week he was turning obscurely as a minor cog in the Party bureaucracy when abruptly the Dictator chose to flaunt again and pillory the name ZINOVIEV...
...weeks we have listened to the voice of John the Baptist Pecora crying in the wilderness of Wall Street, "repent ye, for manipulation is no more". It will be interesting in view of the marked evidence of pool manipulation during the past ten days in certain stocks so happily designated by the noted British economist Angas as "rubbish" shares, to note what action, if any, the Securities Commission will take. Or, maybe only "manipulation" for a decline is to be censured. An interesting stock to watch is McLellan Stores, which, in the midst of, or emerging from reorganization activities...
...When Sandino stood before the squad, he remarked, 'I knew this would happen to me.' My companion in carrying out the executions was Captain Lisandro Delgadillo. I do not repent, but I would like to be forgotten...
...Baker and Roosevelt. "The Reno-like celerity with which Democratic leaders are seeking to divorce themselves from the League of Nations," observed New Hampshire's tart Senator Moses, "is interesting and amusing. . . . Deathbed conversions, however, smack of the theatrical." To this Idaho's Senator Borah piously added: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...