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...known at the CRIMSON office that 'Mr. Ernst" was an impostor. In addition, full details of the phone conversation in which Lampy reneged on its smear of Miss Ernst are in the CRIMSON's possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORSTS OF YEAR POINTLESS ACCORDING TO LAMPY CRITIC | 1/29/1941 | See Source »

Cartoonist Percy Crosby ("Skippy"): "The only time I ever shall bend a knee to a third-term impostor will be before a firing squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Lies, Curses and Bastardies | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Last week the Reorganized Mormons, still seething, decided to bring libel suits against Novelist Fisher and his publishers. Author Fisher was unperturbed. "Joseph Smith has been called epileptic, fraud, drunkard, thief, libertine and murderer," said he. "I have made him a great and lovable man and not an impostor. . . ." He added that a round dozen people had written him that they had been converted to Mormonism by reading his novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons and Polygamy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...alleged offense: lending his naturalization papers for Earl Browder's use in 1921. Wiener's alleged offense: illegal residence in the U. S. Plump, balding Robert Wiener pleaded not guilty before a Federal judge in Manhattan, heard a U. S. Attorney call him "the rankest sort of impostor," charge that under the aliases of Wiener, Weiner, A. Benson, A. Blake, he was really Welwel Warszower from Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Wiener, Weiner | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...rebel against this regime, Charlie is shipped to a concentration camp, from which he escapes in stormtroopers' uniform, is mistaken for the Furor. With the real Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scripteaser | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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