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...lump would boost the French budget by 20%. Mr. Mellon replied to M. Poincaré that he could not, so near the end of his term, undertake the responsibility of waiving the $400,000,000 collection, which had come due through no fault of the U. S. but through France's failure to ratify the refunding. Mr. Mellon continued to "rest...
...Peterson scandal-he was supposed to have paid his political overlord some $2,000-soon evaporated. Not to malign a dead man, it seemed sufficient to say that Postmaster Peterson's bankruptcy was his own fault and not political. But there were other cases...
When the dance?a "Kaw Special"? was over, there were more speeches. Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Colvin, sister of "Cousin Charley," stammered: "It isn't my fault, but I want you to know that I?that we? are all very proud of Charley...
...Prohibition film matter was settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well...