Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of an ever so slight sententiousness, "Capansacchi" as played by Walter Hampden last night was a thoroughly excellent drama played with intelligence. Browning's "The Ring and the Book" which formed the plot for the production is materially preserved although considerably condensed. The essential idea of truth and the characteristic "live to make the world better" are still the motivating influences of the drama, but the discussion is confined to Canon Caponsacchi and his view of the case...
...order to aid in arriving at the truth of the matter, if such is possible, we have accepted the invitation of the Harvard CRIMSON to join in conducting a poll among University undergraduates. What the results of this poll may prove, we cannot definitely say. But we hope that it will be of some slight help in causing something to be done about what, in our opinion, is a most unsavory condition--the disrespect for law in the form of the Volstead Act and the terrific corruption in city and town governments resulting from efforts to "beat" that law. --Brown...
People once gulled by a false advertisement become less susceptible to legitimate ones. For this reason in 1911 the associated advertising clubs of the world decided they needed a committee to promulgate "Truth in Advertising." The next year they formed the National Vigilance Committee. In 1925 the N. V. C. was incorporated as the National Better Business Bureau, placed under the general managership of Edward L. Greene, remembered by oldtime collegians as '"Big Ed." half back and captain of the University of Pennsylvania football team in 1908, already known to Better Businessmen as manager of the Cleveland Bureau...
...taken home by a kindly Scotsman. In this man's family LoBagola stayed four years, gradually learned how not to behave; memorized a' few words of English. Says he: "Before I knew fifty words in the English language, I was given a good beating for telling the truth...
...cash register" the new bank for international settlements. But there have been profound changes in the spirit of the Plan. It was conceived as a business plan, and business today rests heavily on such vague but vital things as "confidence" and "goodwill." Dr. Schacht was talking truth when he said last week: "After the second Hague Conference nothing remained of mutual cooperation, nothing of confidence in Germany, nothing of helping Germany to carry out the difficult task prescribed in the Young Plan. ... I am even now willing to accept the Young Plan in the Young spirit. What is now before...