Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right-human nature is mostly clothes; and Bolshevists, as well as the African savage and the society flapper of either sex, can be dazzled by silk and glitter, and the chance to exhibit a well-shaped calf. Indeed it seems strange that diplomats and statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been...
...Representatives -Zihlman of Maryland for accepting a bribe, and Langley of Kentucky for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act-returned a report. In the Zihlman case the committee agreed unanimously that conflicting evidence had been heard and that "taken as a whole . . . the evidence does not establish the truth of the charge." In the Langley case, the committee had suspended inquiry when the Representative was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. He has since been convicted and is appealing the case (see under), but he will take no part an the proceedings of the House until the courts have entirely...
...permit the Japanese Government to save its face. Theoretically, the question over a date for Japanese exclusion is ridiculous; practically, it is serious. Undoubtedly Ambassador Hanihara when he committed the colossal diplomatic blunder of speaking about "grave consequences" if the bill were passed, spoke little but the truth. The essence of diplomacy is to appreciate the truth and keep it to oneself...
...discovery that the United States government, recent sponsor of disarmament, and self-proclaimed opponent of militarism, is sponsor of Citizens Military Training Camps may conceivably give pacifistic minds a shock. What would seem a grotesquely paradoxical situation is in truth merely an excellent and intelligent educational move...
...defined publicity as "the art of interpreting business to the public." He said, "Just as a good doctor is one who keeps his patient healthy publicity seeks to create, good public impressions of business as we go along. This cannot be done by distorting facts, or keeping the truth hidden, for publicity must not be used as an umbrella to keep off rain. The frank statement of true facts is the means employed in a constructive campaign, and the publicity campaign, and the public has always proved receptive to honest expressions of fact...