Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a duck hunt General Ashburn returned to New Orleans last week in fighting trim. He denounced Banker Lisman as an "unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues...
...thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair, N. J. put up 327 street flags for the coming of Secretary of the Navy Adams. After a protest against their use on a political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving Lincoln Adams (distant relative) ordered them back up again. Hardly had they been placed...
President Hoover's return to Washington became a series of rear-platform appearances. At Fort Wayne he had come close to crying "Liar!" at Governor Roosevelt. At Johnstown, Pa. a man in the night crowd at the train's end yelled out: "We heard you at Des Moines. Give us three more like that and it'll all be over...
Died. Paddy Mullins, 70, oldtime boxing manager (Harry Wills, Mike McTigue, Gunboat Smith) of heart disease; in Brooklyn. Having long sought a bout between Wills and Dempsey, Paddy Mullins once accused Dempsey of backing down, called him a liar, offered to thrash...
...distribute food to hungry striking miners, that the Associated Press, last week, answered complaints of bias on the part of its local representative thus: "Mr. Evans is ... not a staff correspondent of The Associated Press and The Associated Press is not responsible for his personal conduct." No contemptible liar, TIME erred in failing to distinguish between the group of assailants, including Herndon Evans, who rode Waldo Frank out of Kentucky and brutally attacked him and Lawyer Allen Taub, and those members of the group who actually did the manhandling. Allen Taub and another member of the writers' group have...