Word: honest
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...especially in Turin, have received a heavy blow in the referendum by which the workmen voted nearly three to one to accept the compromise. The radical faction may be expected to continue to make trouble, but it will hereafter be recognized as a mere discontented minority which has no honest basis for its case. Three-quarters of the workmen involved want to make haste slowly. Mr. Turati, veteran leader of the moderate Socialist group in the Parliament, in an interview reported in yesterday's Evening Post, said that Italy needed more production, and that production could not be increased without...
Sketching the writing of history in this country, Mr. Page divided it into three periods, one, covering the early history through the Revolution, honest and earnest; the second, more and more divergent and polemical, as different factions arose in the nation; and the last, a return to the earlier method of truth first, and a wider horizon...
Senator Harding's running mate is a horse of another color. Equally inconspicuous a few years since, Calvin Coolidge stands forth today as the dominant personality on the Republican ticket. Of ancient New England stock, a shrewd, calculating country lawyer, "Honest Cal" has become in the person of "the silent man on Beacon Hill" a national figure. His telegram to Samuel Gompers, his second inaugural speech, have stamped him as more than an able politician. He has proved himself a vigorous statesman...
...poor do not stand on an equality before the law. It is useless to deny the suggestion that there is no law for the poor. To be sure, it may be found in law books. But in the light of the experience of a multitude of humble, honest people, this indictment appears to be the simple truth...
...poor do not stand on an equality before the law. It is useless to deny the suggestion that there is no law for the poor. To be sure, it may be found in the law books, but in the light of the experience of a multitude of humble, honest people this indictment appears to be the simple truth...