Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subcommittee and has received general and well merited approbation. It is consequently most unfortunate that its success should be seriously threatened at this time by a vigorous lobby backed by the patent medicine manufacturers. With a rather surprising naivete they allege that if they are forced to tell the truth about their products they cannot sell them; thus even in the presentation of their defense they indict themselves. The power of these men is not to be underestimated. They have extremely influential connections in the financial and industrial worlds, the powerful Drug Institute is behind them, and being heavy buyers...
...Sumner was an "opener of minds," his method was that described by Mr. Keller of "speaking out the truth as a basis of understanding." His phraseology was that of a plain speaking man, courageous in all his intellectual and personal relations, tart when tartness was due and effective. Examples are only too copious; "What are we teachers of Greek going to do if Greek is no longer required?" asked a colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during...
...truth be known, the government there has no gold policy except to drift from day to day in the hope of finding a "natural" level for the dollar...
...Government is a sacred thing," cried the Court, barring his evidence. ''The greater the truth, the greater the libel." Darrow-like, Lawyer Hamilton turned to the jury. When he had finished talking to them they were convinced that the Press should be free to speak its mind about government officials within the limits of decency and truth. They set an historic precedent by adjudging John Peter Zenger not guilty...
...General Johnson was quoted as saying last week that it was ghastly humor for a Wall Street publication to point out how NRA has failed in the small communities. If the day has come when it is 'ghastly humor' for the Press to try to get the truth about the acts of its elected and appointed officials be fore the people, you just know that Democracy is on its way out and Fascism...