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...Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical to the State and people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Totalitarians Rampant | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears; the law is silent; it has nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Betrayal | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...them the $1,000,000 they spent in legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were denied this in the District Court of Appeals by Referee John T. Scott who held that, despite a lower court's ruling, there was neither fraud nor deceit in the merger negotiations, that the merger contract was legal, that therefore Frances T. Wick et al. must pay their own expenses. While proponents of the merger hailed this as a vindication, Frances T. Wick et al. prepared an appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time. Prophet Trux, for vanity's sake and feline Fedora, for caution's, hide the discrepancy. On the strength of their mutual deceit they become lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Seen | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...dramatic reviewers of the more conservative papers, as well as their colleagues, the book-reviewers. These men generally resist the more rhapsodical advertising and seldom betray their public. From their writings, however, are extracted such fragments as are susceptible of favorable interpretation out of context: and thus the deceit grows apace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASELESS BALLYHOO | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

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