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...confess to being one of the luckiest, as well as the laziest, reporters who ever lived, but I have always drawn the line at larceny, especially from one of my fellow craftsmen. I particularly resent any intimation that I would practice banditry or burglary on Ray Clapper, whom I have always admired intensely and have regarded as one of the greatest newspapermen in the country...
...Ghostly Father, I Confess is both a vivid criticism and an ambiguous endorsement of the favorite emetic of Miss McCarthy's circle, psychoanalysis...
...many weeks I'm to be an Army officer. But when I'm honest with myself I confess that throughout my training I've had in mind becoming an instructor, not because I thought I would be especially good as an instructor, but because I thought that would be the safest job I could find in my business...
...National Congress Party and the Moslem League scheduled for the next fortnight. Said the Congress' Mohandas Gandhi: "In spite of my love for the British, I think their imperialism has been the greatest crime against India. The immediate thing, therefore, that the British Government should do is confess the wrong and undo it. Of the undoing there is as yet no sign visible in the Indian sky." The Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah still clung to the League's demands for a separate Moslem state...
...Congressional griddle last week, Jesse Jones had to confess that his vast $400,000,000 synthetic-rubber program, which was to yield the U.S. 400,000 tons of rubber by mid-1943, would not be ready before the end of that year. He could show signed contracts for less than 200,000 tons...