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Franklin Roosevelt lay abed, battling the grippe. But the new Jap puppet Government in the Philippines (TIME, Oct. 25) raised his temperature higher than the grippe's mild fever. Said he: "A hypocritical appeal for American sympathy. . . . Fraud and deceit . . . designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold & Fever | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...this delicate film of intercourse, of mutual visiting and mutual speech, misunderstood, overrated, and abominably overcharged as it has been with blatancy and mistranslation and deceit, lies part of the world's hope. It is the hope that some day all the media of intercourse may be free, and the important ones as responsible as they are free, that speech between the great regions may become more modest and exact, that respect for one another's differences and charity to ward one another's faults may be taught through the air and on the screen along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: What They See in the Papers | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...statutory rape was about to come to a premature end. Alleged rapee Betty Hansen had told her intimate story in court. Admiring women had ogled Flynn in court and begged his autograph. Then a bombshell was exploded by the prosecution in accusing two jurors (women) of using fraud and deceit in their eagerness to get on the jury-concealing the fact that they had already made up their minds about the case. But after a conference the judge dismissed one juror and ordered the case to go on-saving the show from a dreadful anticlimax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Scott describes his book as "the story of a duel between Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler for the continent of Europe. It is the story of the maneuvering, intrigue and deceit whereby each tried in advance to win the war against the other. . . ."' Author Scott believes that Stalin's behavior was "logical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Stalin Signed | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Although based on the army, Nazi diplomacy is a diplomacy of deceit and treachery, but it is no different than that employed by the Kaiser in 1914 when he planned the war long before it broke out, Hermanns told and audience packing Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Militarism and Deceit Guide German Policy | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

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