Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether Vanzetti was innocent but whether Vanzetti had a fair trial. If he received a fair trial, neither he nor his friends have, or ever had, any real complaint against the courts of Massachusetts. Under our system a lawsuit is not an independent, scientific investigation for the discovery of truth, but is an adversary proceeding. The court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from above the bone layer...
...negative reasons (i.e. against Hoover) I have for voting for Mr. Smith is that I don't like the former's crowd, as somebody has put it. I can't help contrasting "I owe my nomination to no man or group of men," which I believe to be absolute truth, with Senator Norris' statement that at the Kansas City convention it was Vare who at the Psychological moment put Hoover across--which I also believe to be absolute truth. James F. Concagh...
Four months from the day Alfred Emanuel Smith is inaugurated President, if he is inaugurated, practically every industry in the U. S. will close its doors and absolutely cease functioning. Of the truth of this sweeping prediction, often made by Republicans, there cannot be the slightest doubt...
...truth of this Democratic prediction there is equally little doubt-in fact, no doubt whatever...
...proportions of truth in the many conflicting statements concerning the present campaign at Harvard will be determined with a certain degree of accuracy by the CRIMSON's presidential poll. The two issues most intensely involved are of differing natures: political, in the actual determination of the University's choice of one candidate, more than political, in its test of Harvard's interest in American government...