Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President & Director Henry Dundas of Standard Vacuum Oil (a subsidiary jointly owned by Socony-Vacuum and Standard of New Jersey to handle much of their foreign business): There is absolutely no truth that we are involved in this undertaking...
...detector's graph showed, at this point, marked disturbance of breathing, pulse, blood pressure-presumptive evidence of a lie. Yet the lad was telling the truth. Patient questioning brought out that he had indeed not stolen a car, but that mention of "stealing" and "car" reminded him of the time when he had put only four gallons of fuel in the family automobile's tank, although his father had given him money for five. Hence his reaction...
...polygamists were quick to find defenders. Ever since the Mormon Church bowed to the U. S. and forbade plural marriage in the Manifesto of 1890, the penalty for getting caught is excommunication. Mormon officials still find it necessary to deplore polygamy publicly. But a monthly magazine called Truth, published in Salt Lake City, is a spirited defender of the abandoned practice, bolstered with copious quotations from Mormon law, Mormon writ and the sayings of the founders...
...count on the assistance of all countries with kings, with the exception of Italy, because of the close relationships existing between the British Royal House and other European Royalty. It is George's way of earning his two million a year. Why not tell the American people the truth- that they are faced with a life & death struggle with a powerful European and Asiatic coalition? Does anyone suppose Japan would be flouting the Nine-Power agreement if she did not have English sanction? England has said "go ahead," for soon it will be England's turn to demand...
Said Mr. King, "Mr. Bennett has declared that recovery must certainly follow social reform. The truth is that economic recovery is the only sure foundation for the successful establishment and continuous operation of social services. To seek to erect an ambitious program of social services on a stationary or diminishing national income is like building a house upon the sands...