Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although truth is said to be stranger than fiction, in most historical movies facts are changed to suit the plot. "The House of Rothschild" is no exception, but the story gains by the alteration. Author Westley, a Boston Transcript editorial man, portrays the rise of the financial house, the orgination of branch banking, and the economic crises of the Napoleonic era with an eye for dramatic incidents...
...have read your entire article on organists and enjoyed it. Most of it is Gospel truth. The organists should thank you for paying them the compliment of a little attention in TIME, but they won't. That's the kind of people they...
...Justice," wrote a trenchant wise-man, "is the will of the strong." But it is often unseasonable to bring the truth to light, lest in the minds of lesser men, it dazzles, and becomes no longer a somatic observation, but a personal compulsion. Judge Charles S. Sullivan of the Charlestown court is doubtless well-read in concepts of justice, and with long experience on the magistrate's bench unquestionably has formulated his own position concerning this most difficult ethical problem. Before his judicial vision unfolds more than seven-hundred years of British Common Law. The pillars of his chambers rest...
...program of education. After visiting hospitals and courts. We discuss in forums alcoholic on the system. Thus you get all the data which you need to make up your mind. After you have joined, you become allied with a competing post which provides the entertainment and spreads the truth about liquor. It is a grand chance to chance yourself with the temperance cause without the sledgehammer type of reformer. Do sea if any of the boys at Harvard aren't interested." A last smile and before we knew it. We were left with but a faint aroma to remind...
...Very few people, I imagine, were seriously misled by Mr. Mellon's statements, which were evidently timed so as to be current while the grand jury had his case under consideration. There is no reason, however, to believe that these highly improper assertions affected the result. . . . The simple truth is that [Mellon] was treated like any one else in a similar situation...