Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they have already made all their winter commitments. It was for this reason that Father Feeney appealed the order. With his appeal, he said, he asked why he was ordered to Holy Cross so abruptly. The answer came back, according to the priest, that he was teaching "the wrong doctrine." He then asked what the wrong doctrine was so that he "might not repeat it in his teaching at Holy Cross." Neither this appeal nor Father Feeney's doctrinal question has ever been answered, Father Feeney reported. He went on to say that "the authorities were afraid...
...reading of Lincoln's reply to Douglas, at Peoria on Oct. 16, 1854, reveals that the truth-loving, morality-conscious Great Emancipator expressed a materially different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot...
Once, when Beaverbrook did act without consulting Franks, he got himself into difficulties. The Beaver turned up at a cabinet meeting with a set of inaccurate labor figures, which Franks and his statisticians could have told him were wrong. Bevin, who loathed Beaverbrook, was quick to spot the error. In the cabinet meeting they started quarreling and Churchill had to intervene saying: "I really can't have two of my cabinet ministers carrying on like this," "Well,", said Bevin, "I won't accept those figures from Beaverbrook. I'll accept them only from Franks...
Furious, Beaverbrook returned to the Supply Ministry with his figures, called for Franks and asked him if they were right. Franks told him candidly they were wrong. But as Beaverbrook was still reluctant to admit the error to his archfoe, Bevin, he ordered Franks to try to find some way to reconcile these figures with the right ones. Franks smiled, went to work with his statisticians and devised an ingenious way of doing it. Having proved he could achieve this little triumph of twisted cunning, Franks burst out laughing. "That," said he, "is what I would call chicanery...
Britain's government, says Lewis, is trying to do something about this state of affairs, but it is doing it all wrong. It is spending most of its art appropriations on lectures, official salaries and historical art exhibitions, and setting aside less than ?5,000 a year to buy the works of living artists...