Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no way to evade the truth that trade is a two-way affair, and that to have exports we must accept imports. . . . The controlling factor in our cotton export trade is the amount of American dollars in the hands of foreign nations wanting our cotton. This situation will get worse instead of better unless and until the American people are willing to accept greatly increased quantities of imports. There is no other way that I know of, short of giving our cotton away through ruinous prices or insecure loans, to regain our former volume of cotton exports...
Almost the only optimist was Illustrator Frederic G. Cooper: "Drawings will always have a monopoly of fiction illustration. The reason is in itself a tribute to photography; the latter is too definite to be tolerated. The obvious truth of photography will not mix with the frank fictitiousness of fiction...
...five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that 300,000 men under good generals might put down the rebellion in three years...
...fight to stem the rising tide of Nazidom. She became secretary to Ernst Schwarz, a Jew high in the councils of the party, finally his sweetheart. But she soon saw the Democrats were getting nowhere. "Not for a moment did I consider turning Communist, but I knew that the truth must lie somewhere in that direction." She left the party, joined the slightly more radical Social Democrats. But by this time Hitler was winning all along the line. Lilo Linke's friends and lovers were splitting up among all the parties; the solidarity of youth was gone forever. Because...
...solid popularity with the Roman populace. His greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork. In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort. Claudius was the last person in Rome to find out the truth about her: that she was a nymphomaniacal adulteress, a treacherous schemer, a cold-blooded poisoner. This discovery made Claudius nearly willing...