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...Administration is committed to a policy of trial and error. This censorship of broadcasting has been given a trial; now admit that it was an error and change the ruling. Imagine the reaction of listeners to Mr. Roosevelt's words-read in the pseudo-Oxonian accents of a typical announcer...
...feel," he began, "that my distinguished friend of years, the eminent President of the United States, who is such an honor to his country and glory to civilization, has fallen into error. . . . We cannot expect the President of the United States, merely because he holds the office, always to be accurate. Of him, too, if I recall the Latin, it may be said, Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. Or, as our Senators schooled in the classics would translate-Sometimes even good Homer himself nods...
...field of History and Literature, when a large portion of the questions were not concerned in any way with the required reading. Apparently, whoever was in charge had neglected even to glance at the papers until the test had actually started, when it was too late to rectify the error...
...characteristics are observed in the following pairs; J. P. Morgan and John F. Curry (simple honest belief in the "system"), George W. Whitney and James J. Walker (plausibility and simple thought), Thomas W. Lamont and John W. Delaney (astuteness), Otto H. Kahn and John H. McGooey (affable admission of error...
...same date last year. His budget message to Congress just one week off, he declared he had not yet prepared his recommendations, was waiting for last minute estimates on public works. As to the future, the President would make no predictions, preferred to leave "the burden of error to writers in the Sunday papers...