Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mutual Savings Banks, the members of which own 13% of all railroad bonds. And vague rumors were afloat in Wall Street that Calvin Cool idge, Alfred Emanuel Smith and others whose voices could command the respect of investors and legislators, would soon look into the railroad situation. There was truth in the story, though its exact nature was probably to remain nebulous for some weeks. It was apparent that the railroads, a blight on the U. S. economic structure, will receive further attention...
Letters from indignant citizens, many deeply interested in our educational system, are before me, asking that "Controlled Washington" be answered with the truth about the University and the smashing of the so-called...
Some confusion is bound to arise from your use of the word "junk," which covers a large number of waste materials, in conjunction with scrap iron. The impression is made that there is a great deal of wealth to be made in the waste industry. The only element of truth that may be taken from such an impression is that the scrap dealer creates national wealth out of waste materials, but not personal wealth. The margin of profit in this industry is small; the knowledge required to preserve even this small margin of profit is a specialized knowledge...
...Gumbel's real dynamite was in three books that he published between 1919 and 1922, Four years of War Lies, Two Years of Political Murders, Four Years of Political Murders. In these the Professor listed proof of over 400 political assassinations. In 1924 the Minister of Justice admitted the truth of most of them but they did not endear him to the Nazis...
...better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. . . . And the elders cried out against her. . . . The multitudes believed them . . . and condemned her to death. . . . Daniel said: Are ye so foolish . . . that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel? . . . Separate these two [elders] and I will examine them. So ... he called one of them and said: . . . Tell under what tree thou sawest them. . . . He said: Under a mastic tree. . . . He commanded that the other should come and said: . . . Under what tree didst...