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...fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise his voice against Embezzler Cocklin at the time he was appointed Rutland's assistant city treasurer. With the Governor's errors the chief topic of conversation in the Green Mountain State, State's Attorney Bloomer dug deeper into the defalcation. In the months that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERMONT: Rutland Fidelity | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...have yet to record an undoubted error . . . I declared in the heat of the American struggle that Jefferson Davis had made a nation . . . I did not perceive the gross impropriety of such an utterance from a Cabinet Minister of a power allied in blood and language and bound to loyal neutrality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

...case is expected to come up for argument in the highest Wisconsin tribunal sometime this week. If no error can be found in the decision of the lower court, Harvard will have only to settle the estate of Mrs. Nieman, pay Federal and Wisconsin taxes, and pocket the remainder. How much this will be is still very much of an unknown quantity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman $5,000,000 Will Is Due For Hearing Before End of Week | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...career a decade ago. He asserted that a certain substance inhibited the action of insulin in the body. When colleagues complained that they could not repeat his experiments, he admitted that neither could he because assistants on whom he had relied in the first place had made an error. His frankness in admitting his blunder put him back in the graces of fellow scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prizes | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...rate, Haigis feels, even if the poll develops a greater percentage of error than it has ever shown, Landon would still have a comfortable margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haigis Expects State and National G.O.P. Sweep; Thinks Roosevelt Silence on Curley Unimportant | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

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