Word: hoaxes
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...This money will be invested in Government bonds and if a $40,000,000,000 reserve should be built up as anticipated, the Government might eventually owe its whole public debt to its prospective pensioners. It was this that Alf Landon last fall called a "cruel hoax" on the workers of America...
...wealthy Dr. Pitzman, they brought Mrs. Muench, her husband, Lawyer Wilfred Jones and a woman friend named Mrs. Helen Berroyer to trial. Convicted, tear-choked Mrs. Muench last week stood up before stern-faced Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis' U. S. District Court and brought her hoax story to a dramatic end. Sobbed...
...Baltimore's most famed ex-resident, but only a figment in the mind of an eccentric printer. With his small press it is Louis MacKenzie Turner's hobby to set up and print the title pages of imaginary books, which he then distributes as a genial hoax around Baltimore...
...John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads have been White House Secretary Stephen Early, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, Ohio's onetime Governor James Middleton Cox and Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business. At the Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot occasional approaches ably enough to make...
Queried at the home office in San Francisco, the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line declared that Capt. Hansen had radioed that the whole affair was a hoax. Snorted the Line: "The incident has been grossly exaggerated...