Word: hoax
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...Rodney does his work well. When he announced that he planned to cover the Olympic Games in Helsinki, he gave this reason for going: "The very nature of sports and the spirit of sportsmanship inherent in such games has started to get in its licks against the inevitable war hoax." To finance his trip, the Worker started an "On to Helsinki" campaign, raised about $700 from its readers...
...Cruel Hoax." Ratliff and his committee, scurrying around in a hunt for outside capital, were forced to do most of their fund-raising after the paper was put to bed. During working hours, Ratliff himself dug up a series of beats on a local income-tax scandal that resulted in an indictment and a jail sentence for a Cincinnati doctor, Sidney Lange (TIME, April 21). But he was less successful with his own financing case...
When he went to the court which must approve the sale, with his pledges, the bank called the employees' bid only "a piece of paper." One witness for the bank pointed out that it would be a "cruel hoax" to let the staff burden themselves with such an enormous debt. Ratliff and his lawyers answered that it was the employees who had made the Enquirer a successful paper, and that there is no reason why it will not continue to make money and pay off the debt. As a clincher, they offered to pay $7,500,000 in cash...
...Truman was back at the barricades in another sector: he turned his attention to the "hypocritical" and "frantic" critics of corruption and disloyalty in government. In a nationally broadcast speech to the Civil Service League, he accused his critics of "a ruthless, cynical attempt to put over a gigantic hoax and fraud on the American people" to distract attention from the real issues of the day. Said Truman: "Political gangsters are attempting to pervert the [loyalty] program into an instrument of intimidation and blackmail, to coerce or destroy any who dare to oppose them . . . They have not hesitated...
...mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud and a hoax...