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...Those who are sly try to slink behind honor, calling on wisdom to fight for deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Aphorisms | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse to "call names.". . . If I want to do something along that line, why not incorporate the word "Munich," using it to signify "a bloodless coup achieved by bad faith, trickery and deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Children's hour stories "must reflect respect for law and order, adult authority, good morals and clean living." Cowardice, malice, deceit, selfishness and disrespect for law must, be avoided, and so must torture, horror (present or impending), superstition, profanity, kidnapping, morbid suspense, hysteria, too much gunplay, death rattles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedtime Bedlam | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Fraud and Deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Fraud and Deceit | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13) and currently president of Fidelity Investment Association. Old Financier Thompson may soon have more time for his mushrooms, for last week SEC asked a Federal judge in Detroit for injunctions whose effect might put Fidelity out of existence "as a fraud and deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Fraud and Deceit | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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