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Prosecutor Buckner remembered five dismal weeks in a courtroom, dismal months of gathering evidence. He announced: "We never decide on the question of a new trial for at least a month. The Government has no apologies-we did our best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Twelve Jurors | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...accomplishment takes in no new members, what happens? It fails. Similarly if the Nation no longer enlists the interest of its citizenry and if a party no longer gains recruits--in short, if people don't vote, the same condition of failure results. Only in this case more dismal and more far-reaching than in the case of a club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lodge Explains Aims of New G. O. P. Political Organization in Massachusetts | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

...Coolidge popularity but are now trying to sell the President personally to the country through a press agent-Bruce Barton-who is best known as the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows. This is simply an effort to draw red herring across the trail of the dismal record of the complete failure of the so-called 'Presidential program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Bayard Clan | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Intellectual England is indeed fortunate in possessing a dismal prophet Dean Inge's repeated reminders that the advance of civilization is by no means inevitable may be just the spur which the national genius needs to ensure progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRACTICAL PESSIMIST | 9/28/1926 | See Source »

...population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings a bit hollow, that Mongolia and Siberia will receive the land hungry Japanese before there will be forced upon an unwilling west. This news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSIDE OF NIPPON | 6/2/1926 | See Source »

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