Word: dishonestly
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...just one card ahead of the public since last June, and with phenomenal success has directed opinion into planned channels. This is his right as President, but to employ the methods of unfounded alarm and misnomer, as he is now doing on the convoy issue, is both hypocritical and dishonest...
...leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves around an attempt to exploit the exploiters by winning from the runners of a dishonest poker game enough to keep an embezzling clerk from committing suicide. Though he let things slow down a bit too much in spots. Director Ben Hecht has here found the ideal substitute for standard boy meets girl second feature-a simple drama with simple characters, skillfully cast and superbly photographed...
...told that any further aid to England without involving ourselves in a bloody invasion of Germany would be dishonest to England! The government of this nation has made its position in regard to aid to England reasonably clear. It has denied the intention of sending an expeditionary force. We are not misleading England. Indeed, a number of British spokesmen are opposed to an American overseas force. They fear that it would reduce our productive capacity, and they call for aid in material rather than in men. To term our present method of aid to Britain dishonest is patently false...
...time to call a halt to our headlong rush into war. To help England further, without pledging ourselves to dedicate a generation to the bloody task of invading Germany, would be dishonest. We must stop sending bombers and ships and guns to England unless we are prepared to follow them up with men. Now that there is something like a deadlock, President Roosevelt, if he means to make good his pledge to keep America out of war, should throw his weight in favor of the best possible peace with Germany--yes, even a peace leaving Hitler in control...
...makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...