Word: truths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover at the Gridiron Club dinner last month heard the shade of Historian John Fiske reveal "the truth" about Lincoln's attitude toward slavery. Fiske quoted Lincoln as saying: "The great issue of slavery must be met. We are engaged in a noble experiment. . . . I am appointing a commission to go into the whole labor situation, including slavery, which will report sometime, somewhere, somehow...
...died a natural death. On the other hand, I have ridden on a locomotive, won a prize at the Olympic games . . . been examined by the police on suspicion of attempted murder . . . had a statue of myself erected in my lifetime in a London park, and learned to tell the truth - nearly...
...whatever may be the virtues and failings of the coach who has had charge of the university crew during the past three years, be cannot fairly be accused of truckling, even to Harvard graduates. The truth is that Harvard graduates have not interfered with the coaches, at least in the last forty years. It is easy for a disappointed coach, or for an enthusiastic father who believes his son has not been fairly treated in the competition for a place on a team, to say and even to believe that there was alumni interference, in particular by the graduate committees...