Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty of contempt and fined to the extent...
...manufactured ar spread by their Washington lobby -ONETIME COL. WILLIAM MITCHEL "What's the use of getting into an argument with a man who, on the face of it, doesn't know what he is talking about, and, if he did, couldn't tell the truth about it?" -ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THEODORE DOUGLAS ROBINSON. This exchange of acrimonious accusations last week marked the return to the public ear of onetime Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925, e seq.). It has long been Mr Mitchell...
...tactician picked up and read two fat volumes† about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf. As he read. Sir Frederick apparently began to experience a sense of scorn. Here were errors of fact, sloppiness, perversions of truth and everywhere the pink and soapy touch of superficiality. What...
...Need I remind you that at the request of your son's friends I intervened at the time of Phillipe's death so that his body might be taken in secret to his home? . . . "From the first no one desired more ardently than I that the entire truth be known about this death. Recently I gave my support to a petition for a revision of evidence, contrary to the opinion of the commission hearing the case. Even when the sentence was pronounced I would have wished that it should not be executed, despite the abominable calumnies which your...
...Most Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week...