Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fijth-you further state that "when I found the Fergusons had horned in on a party of mine last week that I stomped away and did not return to the box until they had gone." This is entirely erroneous, has not a semblance of truth and is another injustice to the Governor...
...going to let them fool the American people. . . . Racketeering is a harsh word. We do not mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments, that Al Capone was a poor ignorant Sicilian piker...
...Admiral Takarabe is not at home!" declared his secretary, speaking truth...
Someone has characterized the American Public Educational System as an institution "devoted to the glorification of the mediocre and to the perpetuation of convenient half-truth." The author of this statement might have gone further. He might have railed against the politician who makes these things possible and necessary, he might have castigated the inert combination of cynicism on the high side, and of saccharine ignorance on the low, a combination which in turn makes the politician possible and necessary. And if asked for a demonstration, he might have turned to the evidence which Dean Holmes presented in the Massachusetts...
...describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public...