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Said the Rev. John Roach Strat-on, fundamentalist leader: "Both the Governor and the attorney general did wrong. They should have permitted the members of their families to die and have died themselves rather than violate their oaths of office. An officer of the law swears to support the law and his family interests should not cut the slightest figure once he has taken the oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Indiana | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...Unique Wrong. Although the report postulates German innocence in employing poison gas, submarines, bombing planes, etc., only in "rightful reprisal," yet a minority of the Commission declared Germany blamable in one instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rightful Reprisals | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...minority report postulates as wrong that 500,000 Belgian workers were deported from their homeland to Germany and, in some instances, were forced to labor there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rightful Reprisals | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: TIME, May 9 gives, doubtless unintentionally, quite a wrong impression of a recent statement of mine before the American Philosophical Society. Perhaps you would wish to correct it. What I really said was this: "In the face of great apparent prosperity, higher education in this country ... is gravely menaced by the difficulty?approaching impossibility?of recruiting an adequate amount of first rate intellectual ability to carry forward this great enterprise." I am sure you will agree that you attribute a very different statement to me. JAMES R. ANGELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data so far accumulated indicates that one is wrong as often as the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Honest Shoppers | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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