Word: falsehood
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This week the New York Post charged that "the G. O. P." saw Lewis' speech before it was delivered, censored two passages-one of them an appeal to Jewish voters. Said G. O. P. National Chairman Joe Martin: "A flat falsehood...
...restrained were other editors who jumped on Chairman Flynn. The Sacramento Union's Charles J. Lilley called the accusation "a deliberate falsehood." In Portland, Ore. the Oregon Journal printed a cartoon of Flynn peering under a bed for hobgoblins; the Oregonian's cried scornfully: "A fine set of knaves to be accusing the press of misuse of its freedom!" Said Thomas Radcliffe Hutton of the Binghamton Press in Mr. Flynn's home State: "... a political blob of which Jim Farley never would have been guilty." Said the forthright Seattle Times, reverting to old-fashioned style...
...Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner (concerning two brewers who were supposed to have contributed $100,000 to Leader Barkley's 1938 campaign for reelection) on the record. It was, said Senator Barkley, a "scurrilous, contemptible and indecent" article. "In my judgment [Alsop & Kintner] would rather tell a falsehood for nothing than be paid to tell the truth...
...harassed by telephone calls from angry anti-Nazis), hurried to Manhattan's motor vehicle bureau (in a taxi) to explain his license applications. He denied that he had lost a leg in World War I, admitted he had lost a foot. He denied that he had told a falsehood in naming an engineer of Texas Corp. (his client) as his employer, but admitted he had failed to notify the bureau when he moved to Scarsdale. He also tried belatedly to claim diplomatic immunity. His driver's license was revoked but he managed to have his car registration transferred...
...families are hardly less good. He is an apt recorder of U. S. dwellings, furnishings, streets, and qualities of weather. He has a warm skill for drawing-sometimes overdrawing-characters. Much that he writes of is massively representative of U. S. life; he manages to give it charm without falsehood; and he makes it seem virtually his own discovery...