Word: truths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General. Attempts at explanation by the dizzy Dictator are royally ignored. The Dictator leaves the Palace with his fate already sealed?unless he should decide to defy the King. Despatches covering all this are filed by Scooper de Gandt and pass the Spanish censor who will later deny their truth. Fearing that they will not pass, the Scooper dashes to a telephone, talks the scoop to Paris for relay to New York...
Writing with stark frankness last week in Pravda (Truth), Dictator Stalin denied reports that a kulak, after the Government has seized his land, will be allowed to stay on it as a humble toiler on the Government's "collective farm." In the Dictator's mind such a policy smacks of weakness, sentimentality and therefore danger. "The kulak must be completely liquidated!," he wrote, using a popular but ambiguous Soviet verb also correctly used in the sentences, "Let the hangman now liquidate the condemned!" and "Let us, Comrade, endeavor to liquidate the static in our radio...
...however, our primary interest to induce people to join the Quakers. . . . People should take full responsibility, after thought and discussion, for their own truth and right. . . . The trend of our time is scientific. . . . The great organized churches are insisting on at least formal acceptance of a lot of medieval superstitions . . . are giving only lip service to the ideals of humility, simplicity and friendliness which are characteristic of Jesus. . . . Here and there one finds an exception where a courageous leader, such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes or Rabbi Wise takes a public stand and rallies a group of like...
...this company]," reported the Commission, ". . . contained a testimonial or indorsement purporting to be that of certain actresses in a musical show who were credited with the statement to the effect that through the use of respondents' cigarets, 'That's how we stay slender, when in truth and in fact the said actresses were not cigaret smokers and did not stay slender through the use of the respondents' products." The respondent also "caused various forms of advertising matter to contain such statements as 'Every woman who fears overweight finds keen interest in this new and common...
...course of his speech, General Brown enunciated a truth so homely that the industry has been hoping it would die. Said he: "The very life of the passenger transport industry is in the balance...