Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain facts about Ideal Marine Lou Diamond the Corps admitted reluctantly: that his real first name is Leland, that he is 53 years old, got through grammar school and eight years as switchman on the Michigan Central ($62.50 a week) be fore signing up in 1917. These contradict what every Marine has long sworn is truth: that Lou Diamond is at least 200, joined the Corps in 1775, has never been anything but a Marine...
...principal victims of miscarried news are the American public and not their press. To withhold from this public information which might "aid or comfort the enemy" is recognized as essential by every fair-minded citizen; but when the enemy is able, on the other hand, to truthfully contradict statements issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale-building. Just such was the case when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle...
There were some French exiles last week who objected to General de Gaulle's statement, seeing behind it personal political ambitions. This week General de Gaulle took special pains to contradict his critics...
...cable editor criticized American censorship for its lack of organization or centralization of authority. Giving as an example one scoop from Australia, he told of the difficulty of giving accurate news when all stories must pass through the hands of army, navy, and Washington censors, all of whom may contradict each other...
...trial was a witch hunt. Because Italian law holds prisoners guilty until they are proved innocent, it was his job to see they were not proved innocent. According to Giornale d'ltalia, "the ability of the President [Tringali-Casanuova] who questioned him [Skuka] rigorously made him [Skuka] contradict himself...