Word: true
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development" reads your description of President Hoover's visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4. ... A gross exaggeration and untruth and one for which TIME should be ashamed. . . . True the weather was inclement when the President honored Louisville with his visit-so inclement that plans formulated many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass on his automobile trip to Southern Indiana across Louisville...
...true that I violated an old Cambridge ordinance forbidding free distribution of printed matter on the streets. I wanted to know whether the law was a dead letter or a threat over the heads of radicals. If the former, I thought it should be repealed; if the latter, I wanted the public to know...
...subsequently published a signed sworn statement of violations of this and similar ordinances by other persons but the police simply denied the truth of my charges and refused to act. Your correspondent states with a grieved air that the pamphlets I distributed contained no radical phraseology. True enough. What they did state was that as long as American workers continued to elect to office the nominees of the Capitalist owners of the Republican and Democratic parties, laws would be passed inimical to the working class and that in the administration of existing laws the working class would be discriminated against...
...voice in the selection of the teams. The coaching, however, during the period of intensive preparation for the Oxford contests is done by several old Blues (the equivalent of Harvard "H" men), who come up to Cambridge for a month or two each year for this purpose. It is true that they offer their time free so that they are technically of amateur standing, but I have been told by several people that they are chiefly gentlemen of leisure who can easily afford to devote their time to university athletics without receiving any remuneration...
...true, though, that three recent pictures in which the musical numbers have been added, in the stage, rather than-the screen, manner have proved reasonably successful. They are "Rio Rita," "The Hollywood Revue" and "The Cocoanuts," but in each case there has been an explanation that prevents destruction of the aforementioned theory. "Rio Rita" is frankly a photograph of a famous Ziegfeld success and it has proved popular for the reason that it provides at small cost an opportunity for the general populace to see the work of a nationally publicized showman. "The Hollywood Revue" could hardly fail since almost...