Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Special Session two months ago. This week, the President omitted another-Regional Planning-recommended for enactment 1) the Farm Bill, 2) a wages-&-hours bill and 3) modernized anti-trust laws. Of the first: "It is shameless misrepresentation to call this a policy of scarcity. It is in truth insurance before the fact instead of Government subsidy after the fact." Of the second (which the House sent back to Committee in the Special Session): "We are seeking of course only legislation to end starvation wages and intolerable hours. . . . Wage and hour legislation ... is ... definitely before this Congress for action...
...Benito Mussolini had sown in Cairo much of what the King was trying to reap this week. The British were not in the least relieved when Ali Maher Pasha, Chief Political Chamberlain of His Majesty, also told London papers by telephone that "there is not a word of truth" in the rumors that Egypt's new Cabinet is pro-Mussolini...
...what the A. P. O. can do for the graduate student. Others will discuss the A. P. O. and the student who will be wanting a job for only a year or two, the A. P. O. and the Senior who already has opportunity for placement, and the truth about business opportunities in Publishing, Foreign Trade, and Government Service, subjects on which many of the men who come into the office seek information...
...qualities which Rhodes specified as composing the criterion for selection included: literary and schoastic ability and attainments; qualities of "manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship"; exhibition of "moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates"; physical vigor...
...sighed a reliable official of the University, as he acknowledged the truth of the report, "I am afraid the lectures are long enough...