Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their private lives. Having paid and disclosed, they may issue (20 days later) between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000 of securities for which officers, directors and underwriters will be severally and jointly liable, if the voluminous corporate biographies are ever found to represent other than the whole truth. So saith the new Securities Act (TIME. June...
...Three months ago in Washington he told a committee of the House of Representatives that the then-proposed truth-in-Securities bill was not half strict enough...
...family, or anarchy. The paternal state, which tries to be Our-father-which-art-on-earth, is always accompanied by the loss of the subtle qualities of fatherhood in individual men. When patriotism becomes matriotism, nature and force reassert themselves in human affairs. Sympathy has been mistaken for the truth...
...much to say that Mr. John Dewey's views owe most of their publicity to politicians who are only too glad to remain impervious to the suggestion that those in power exercise control over education, that they realize their advantage, and that they will naturally refuse to disseminate the truth about themselves. It was slightly stupid of Governor Cross to advocate this hackneyed nostrum before a presumably intelligent audience. It was stupidity itself for him to skip from politics to Shakspere in his abortive attempt to say, in effect, that he did not know whether any good could come...
...have always said with pride that the peculiar strength of democracy lay in its ability to adapt itself to changed conditions. We are witnesses to a demonstration of the truth of that boast...