Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When John Simpson, new president of the Farmers Union, charged the Board with deliberately depressing farm prices, Mr. Legge hotly retorted: "You can say to Mr. Simpson that any man making that statement is an unmitigated liar, and say it with my compliments...
...your issue, is to imply that I larcenously appropriated Mr. E. E. Slocum's highly entertaining contribution about The Fighting Fish of Bangkok and deliberately used it as my own in a story written for the Boston Post, Mr. Stanton is (can you hear me now?) a liar and you are another unless you withdraw that Copycat caption...
...apparent purpose was to make MacDonald out a habitual liar who was perjuring himself now no less than he may have done at the Billings-Mooney trials. Time and again Preston would harshly ask: "Was that a lie?" "Weren't you lying when you said that?" When MacDonald became hopelessly rattled, Preston scornfully inquired: "You've told five different stories at five different times. How is the court to know which one to believe?" Meekly replied MacDonald: "You'll have to use your own judgment...
...repeated to the trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
...Chicago and the money hungry reporters. No one man will ever realize just how big it is, so lay off. . . . They'll make a monkey out of you. No matter what dope you give that grand jury, the boys will prove you're a liar and a faker. You'll get a trimming...