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...full-length address was on the power issue. Even the Republican Press conceded that it was factually sound and rang true. He began with a slashing attack upon "certain great private utility corporations" for what he called their "systematic, subtle, deliberate and unprincipled campaign of misinformation, propaganda, lies and falsehood." He charged them, in addition, with overcapitalization, rigging State public service commissions, selfish nearsightedness. He specified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Dealer | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...detailed information, Herr Kreuger reported about $70.000.000 invested in "X." "Y" and "Z" but still insisted on anonymity. Last week it was revealed that X stood for Italy, Y for Spain, Z for Diamond Match Co. But the "concessions" did not exist, the $70,000,000 "investment" was pure falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers at Work | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...current depression is a proof of the utter falsehood of the belief that capital is directed into the most efficient channels by a system of private ownership and management of industry", said Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President of the United States, in a CRIMSON interview yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Thomas Says Weakness of Private Ownership is Revealed by Depression-Hails Public Control to End Graft | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

...ribald, to which the venal trade of publicizing has been subjected seems to have been blunted on the dullness of its target. Or possibly the public has become so habituated to the nonsensical claims by manufacturers who keep safety-pins and piston rods fresh in cellophane, that claptrap and falsehood in advertising neither arouses suspicion as to the purity and worth of the product, nor awakens resentment in the minds of the duped. If this is so no hopes can be held for any immediate change. But if the flood of periodicals mocking the accepted lies of the cigarette vendors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACE VALUE | 5/3/1932 | See Source »

...publishers and producers without so much as casting a critical eye over them are guilty of furthering the designs of prejudiced prophets, it standards of taste are to be elevated to any appreciable degree, the duplicity involved in so playing about on the border-line between truth and falsehood must have...

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

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