Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted to get control of the Erie because it competed with his New York Central, then pushing westward to Chicago. When Vanderbilt tried to buy up every Erie share on the market, the supply suddenly became endless. Reason: Jim Fisk had set up a press to turn out fake stock certificates. Vowed Fisk: "If this printing press don't break down, I'll be damned if I don't give the old hog all he wants of Erie...
...since left his $8,goo-a-year Times-Herald job to become Senator Butler's $10,800 assistant, said McCarthy's office had provided a lot of the story material, and Times-Herald files most of the pictures. The composite, he said stoutly, was "not a fake . . . not a fraud." It was, he added with a straight face, just a happy answer to a problem of "space limitation." Assistant Managing Editor Garvin E. Tankersley, who had ordered the composite made, acknowledged that he was trying to "show that Mr. Tydings did treat Mr. Browder with kid gloves." Asked...
Next day the State Department knocked down the Chief's beat; the letter was a fake. Said the State Department: "The alleged letter is not cut out of whole cloth but [is] ingeniously fashioned from fact, half-truth, rumor and inaccuracy." Zabronsky (whose name was misspelled in the letter) had indeed presented Roosevelt with a Scroll of the Torah at the White House, and Roosevelt had written his thanks-but in 1938. By 1943 Zabronsky, a certified public accountant who never left the U.S. during the war, was no longer council president. Another error: Marshal Timoshenko never visited...
Figaro frankly admitted that it had not checked either. Its excuse was that the Doussinague memoirs had been published a year ago, that the State Department knew of the letter, and yet no U.S. official had bothered to brand it a fake. The State Department's lame excuse: the memoirs had not been brought to the attention of anyone "in authority." But none of these excuses absolved the Hearst papers for failure to question their story before printing...
Leftist Faiz is best known as an Urdu poet. Both soldiers are career officers from the old Indian army. Akbar Khan enjoys an added reputation as a practical joker. Once, to amuse himself, if not his friends, he had an aide read fake news bulletins over a microphone connected to his home radio. While Akbar chuckled, his worried guests heard realistic descriptions of the death of one guest's father, a fire which burned down another's house, and an earthquake in an area where a third man owned property...