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Most of this reaction, he thought, came from people who wanted "to bolster one of two previously determined conclusions: that [Wallace] is a dirty red or a fooler both ... It is possible," he wrote with heavy sarcasm, "to oppose Mr. Wallace's candidacy on sincere and reasoned grounds: believers in the theory that the boom and bust cycle is inevitable . '. . those who prefer sovereignty enforced by military means at home and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Domestic Affair | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Three years ago, like many another newspaper, the New York Times carried an astonishing picture of a man on skis propelling himself off the ground by puffing into a pair of rotors. It turned out to be an April Fooler concocted by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. Year later, another story blossomed in Germany-that a pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Icarus to Bossi | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Fooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bumper | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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