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Next day other newspaper correspondents read Mr. Henning's story; wondered whether it was a scoop, a violation of confidence or a mere hoax. They asked the President about it. His reply was cautiously emphatic: "For obvious reasons it has to be the policy of President Coolidge to assume no responsibility for press reports as to his position on public questions, made without official sanction. He has given no interview, made no statement, taken no position and expressed no attitude, for the purpose of influencing the choice of United States Senator in Illinois...
Recall Cardiff Giant Hoax...
...Within a few hours dozens of rumors were circulating about the discovery on Butte's farm. Some vowed that it was a circus elephant that had died in the vicinity several years before; others believed it to be a hoax similar to the Cardiff giant discovery...
...events in politics, art, literature, or upon life itself as she found it in her solitude. The texture of her mind was altogether extraordinary, far in advance of its time, indeed of this time too. Only a few pages are necessary to convince the reader that here is no hoax like The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, published last winter by a whimsical Irish girl. Nor is there room left for wonder that this lady's descendants should have kept her journal in locked bureau drawers all these years...
Edgar Allan Poe once published a triumph of the imagination entitled "The Balloon Hoax," purporting to tell the tale of an enterprising newspaper's fictitious account of a balloon crossing the Atlantic. Poe was a dreamer; he wrote his little fancy for certainly no more sordid motive than profit. Today's dreamers spoof with "The Spokesman Hoax," with the ignoble design of evading responsibility- nothing more. Gentlemen breakfast, then naturally desire to know what the Chief Executive thinks, for example, about increasing, by Congressional legislation, acreage on Philippine rubber plantations. What do gentlemen read?". . . The Spokesman...