Word: hoaxes
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...brought them to Cambridge in little brown suitcases. But a CRIMSON operative, dispatched to Hanover last Wednesday to ferret out news of a possible parody, returned with conclusive evidence of the forthcoming fraud. In Saturday's issue of the genuine Crime appeared a story warning readers of the hoax...
...stated that he knows a panacea to cure the situation in Korea ... If he knows a remedy, it's his duty to come and tell me what it is and save lives right now . . . This is simply playing a cheap and cruel hoax on the mothers and wives of our men in Korea . . . just what the Communists want...
...Washington, World War II hero Maynard H. ("Snuffy") Smith, 41, who won the Medal of Honor for some cool-headed shooting and lifesaving on an Eighth Air Force bomber, was sentenced to ten days in jail for turning in a false report in a suicide hoax. Smith, it was claimed, was trying for some publicity to help boost his chances for becoming governor of Virginia. The hoax: as a young mother pretended to jump from the sixth floor of a Y.W.C.A. building, Snuffy bravely crawled out on the ledge and "persuaded" her to come back...
...Said Hassett regretfully, "That's all in Mencken." "But I've seen a paper the American Medical Association drew up . . ." said the President. Hassett gave Mencken credit again. The President shook his head. "I'd swear those A.M.A. fellows didn't think it was a hoax...
...have to look far for evidence. The case is now perfectly clear in the grain-storage hoax of 1948. It is a story of perversion of Government responsibilities and powers−the story of a giant federal farm agency, backed by the people's dollars, deliberately driving down the price of grain to instill fear in the minds of farmers. It is a story of a Government agency spreading panic-using press, radio and speeches to paint a picture ... a false picture ... of the lack of storage space for grain...