Word: hoax
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Surely we have been taken in by a hoax. a clever satire. It is unthinkable that Mr. Davis meant his poll-tax letter as a serious argument, rather than as a device to pull the legs of the southern arrogancy clique. We are all of us aware of the ignorance of the poverty-stricken, but it differs very little from the ignorance of the vast majority of those who are able to pay the tax. How can this letter have been more than a wicked, heartless gibe at the poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch...
...Martin reported to the Governor and Chief of State Police as follows: "After having made a thorough investigation of the alleged kidnapping . . . and after having taken long statements from 3 7 witnesses and going over the grounds . . . it is our firm belief that this . . . case is . . . a fraud and hoax perpetrated upon the Governor, the officials and the people of the State of New Mexico...
Valtin-Krebs was living last week in New York with his girl-wife, 17-year-old Abigail Harris. Around the former German terrorist and Red agent swirled a storm of conjecture and argument: was his autobiography true or a hoax? Valtin-Krebs & friends said it was true; no respectable evidence has yet been produced to show that it was anything else. And if it was true, under present alien laws, he was liable to deportation back to the Germany whence he had fled...
...TIME'S research department a sharp rap on the knuckles for not detecting that the picture showing outgoing Vice President Garner telephoning from a lonely chair in an otherwise empty office was a photographer's hoax -merely taken in the outer reception room, from which a desk had been removed for refinishing. Actually Mr. Garner removed no Vice-Presidential furniture; the same that served him will serve incoming Vice President Wallace...
...position given was Freetown, over 600 miles away. At full speed it would have taken the Empress at least 24 hours to get there; yet the British Government declared her in port nine hours after the incident. The Government charged that the Nazis had pulled a war of nerves hoax, possibly to trick the Empress into giving her true position; the Nazis charged the British with lying about her safety...