Word: hoax
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Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...
...instituted the "hoax" deserve the thanks of the college for emphasizing the lax manner in which Council supervised elections are conducted. the men who actually supervised the election were "victims of the system." Final responsibility for permitting conditions under which such a thing could happen must be placed on the attitude of the Council as a whole, which has failed to follow the simplest and most obvious recommendations of its own Committee on class Affairs...
...Enemy of The People," was pictured on a bogus police "wanted" poster, merely for publicity purposes of course. However the men who keep the University clean did not see it that way. The actor's features were a bit too realistically felonious for the janitors to percieve the hoax...
Meanwhile, their own papers lay unnoticed in a corner of the Daily Directorate's sanctum and were finally delivered so late that many sad-eyed Big Green students went to the game still believing the hoax...
...Agreement Act in general and prospective import duty rate reductions in particular. The Committee for Reciprocal Information has been informed that "lowered import duties constitute a threat to American industry, agriculture, and defense," and Senator Butler, Republican of Nebraska, has revealed that the reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock have been unable to point out a specific case of lowered tariffs or reciprocal agreements adversely affecting American industry. They continue to cry wolf, blind to the lesson they should have...