Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator's recent land grabs, and the German press specialized in attacks on Britain for her leadership in the Stop Hitler movement. Said Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "Talk about humanitarianism and morals is simply disgusting to us." The Berliner Lokalanzeiger used an entire page to describe British "falsehood and hypocrisy, violation of rights and oppression, robbery and atrocity of every sort." Der Angriff ran in installments a piece on the Boer War subtitled: "Inhumanities Britain Has on Her Conscience." The Führer's Volkischer Beobachter described British naval aggression in 1807 at Copenhagen...
...house divided into a situation evolved from a newspaper's antagonism to one man. That an inactive member of the Faculty should have been added to the mess is more than unfortunate; it proves to what gamut the American can run to create a public clamor out of falsehood and sensationalism...
...overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed blackguard, saturated with hate for every member of Congress who voted against spendthrift practices of the New Deal authorities and against projecting the Government into every conceivable species of business. His statement concerning me is simply a wanton falsehood. I doubt if there is a member of Congress who has had less than I to do with so-called Government grants. . . . Horatius-at-the-Bridge stood and fought; he did not go 3,000 miles across the continent to lie about his adversaries...
Presently the Nanking censor passed dispatches saying it was only the Japanese Domei News Agency which had invented "that appalling falsehood," the story of the broadcast from Sian having said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese...
...wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...