Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California, The resounding defeat of Democrat Upton Sinclair of Governor came as a surprise to no one but the ex-Socialist (see p. 16). Upon his election, Acting Governor Frank Merriam, with perhaps more truth than he intended, called the result "a rebuke to Socialism and Communism...
...your newspapers willing to take specific articles giving the facts, so that the truth may be known...
...Teachers cannot build a new social order, as some people would have them do. On the other hand, teachers cannot remain aloof from current realities if their teaching is to be at all vital and significant. Teachers ought to teach what they believe to be the truth on all questions where the community as represented by the School Board has not expressly forbidden them to teach. Teachers can be much more aggressive in teaching the truth on all matters about which the community has not crystallized an opinion than they commonly...
...truth of the matter is that the thing was slowly melting away. CO1 and SO2 from the oilburners of Boston dissolved in rain and formed corrosive acids which attacked the limestone...
...amused the crowd with a funny speech as it waited for the spectacle. It was nearly midnight when one of the "lynching committee" appeared to announce that he feared violence with so many people around; there would be no show until most of the mob went home. Plain truth seemed to be that the lynching committee had so brutalized the Negro that he had died back in the woods on the banks of the Chipola River before the lynchers had a chance to kill him publicly. He was certainly quite dead when, toward morning, the lynchers dumped his mutilated corpse...