Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deficit, although it increased the public debt. Thus the President might have ignored the $3,970,000,000 RFC outlay of 1934, might have announced a deficit not of $7,309,000,000 but of $3,339,000,000. Then he might have told Congress in sober truth: "Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures. We expect to exceed this amount by only $39,000,000. For fiscal 1935 our budget, including all emergency expenditures now foreseen, is estimated to balance with a surplus of $14,000,000. Some unforeseen expenditures...
...Truth, notoriously less neat than fiction, occasionally turns up art readymade. Such a made-to-order true story is the tale of the Bounty, 18th Century British brig whose voyage to Tahiti and back was cut short in the Pacific by mutiny. In Mutiny on the Bounty (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932) Authors Nordhoff & Hall told the first part of the tale. Men against the Sea is a straightforward but circumstantial account of what happened to Captain Bligh and his men when the mutineers cast them off in an open boat in the mid-Pacific. (The final part, Pitcairn...
...code. Obviously such a book cannot be quickly read, digested, or judged; the kind of approach which it demands is the kind of approach which Harvard men, above all, should have. The process of obtaining it will prepare the men of Harvard to preach the gospel of truth in the four corners of the earth. Phillip Francis Samuels...
...certain. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, is a highly sensitive reflector of public opinion; he possesses an uncanny faculty for gauging the mood of the country, and how it will react to any given measure. The reception accorded by the public to his budget proposals is ample testimony to the truth of this. Everywhere they have met with almost unqualified approval by the people...
...that it is strictly opportunistic in its character. It asks for the support of the country in whatever it takes because the hand of God is upon it. This attitude--and even the most cursory examination of the utterances of Administration spokesmen will evidence its truth--smacks of Fascist doctrine too strongly to permit our viewing the situation without some misgivings. Victor H. Kramer...