Word: impostors
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...investigations and statements in the future. The bald fact that the government of Denmark has never withdrawn its medal and degree given to Dr. Cook but has withdrawn, if I am not wrongly informed, its endorsements of Peary, is splendid proof that Dr. Cook has never been deemed an impostor by Denmark nor by many others in a position to know-not guess. Also, this class of competent judges is one that would be most jealous of their records and statements. . . . IRA C. PRICHARD Kansas City...
...should like to correct your assumption that I am generally considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers...
...listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
Complaining that he had thus been branded "an impostor, liar, falsifier and humbug unworthy of serious consideration," Matador Franklin demanded $300,000 damages from Columbia Pictures...
Said Dean Virginia Crocheron Gilder-It has been a varied adventure from ringing doorbells at strange houses search of a few dollars, and being almost turned out as an impostor to securing two millions from one generous donor...