Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston. Mass. Sirs - Some time ago I heard the following story, but can give no information relating to its source or authenticity. I should like to know if there is any truth in it. Immediately after his inauguration, Grover Cleveland confronted his mother and said, "Well, Mother, what do you think of your son now?" She replied. "I had always hoped you would be a minister, Grover." ARTHUR B. BERRESFORD...
...Republican candidate: "It is incredible that a candidate for the Presidency of the United States would broadcast such a violation of the truth.... The Democrats have used deliberate misrepresentations and colossal falsehoods.... The charge that the Supreme Court has been controlled by any political party is an atrocious one.... He is proposing changes and so-called new deals which would destroy the very foundations of our government...
...reflection upon the truth of that cause embraced by the men who took part in the Great War, appeared in the columns of Monday's CRIMSON. Its ardent desire to foster our rapidly-developing modern attitude toward war confused somewhat irrationally that abstract attitude toward war with the very actual inspiration that carried these men forth. It is devoutly to be hoped that we shall all, in time, appreciate the futility of war even if we cannot appreciate its cruelty. But we may hope with almost equal fervor that our disdain for war itself be not transmuted into disdain...
...Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found-and Abby blows the whole greedy plot to bits with an astonishing revelation. Shy, shrinking Actress Lord's last two parts (one before: The Truth About Blayds) have required her quietly to maintain a fierce loyalty to a dead genius. She does it excellently. Walter Connolly also has a typical role of frustration, performs capably as usual. Producer-Director Miller, who seldom misses, has not missed this time...
...strike out for himself as Kenneth Collins, Inc. Graduated by the University of Washington in 1919, he declined a Rhodes scholarship, taught freshman composition at the University of Idaho for a year, then almost entered the Episcopal ministry. Instead he took an M.A. degree at Harvard. There is no truth to the story that he bluffed his way into his Macy job without advertising experience. Adman Collins had spiced up the copy of a small Boston department store, spent one year in a Cleveland advertising agency before he answered Macy's want advt. The names of his future clients...