Word: liar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drew Pearson (621 papers, circ. 18,000,000) is the most widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic...
...Mosquito pilot nervously shot the thing down, then headed home, wondering glumly how he was going to report this without acquiring a permanent reputation as the R.A.F.'s biggest liar. Intelligence officers, finally convinced, guessed the monstrosity might have been an experimental glider tow plane...
Cried Bill Jack: "If anyone says Jack & Heintz are profiteers . . . he is a liar...
...crusading Drew Pearson, once called a liar by the President, let his nationwide radio audience in on a secret that scores of U.S. correspondents had shared with thousands of U.S. soldiers since August. George S. Patton, the General who does not believe in nerve difficulties, had some himself (TIME, Nov.29). For slapping a hospitalized soldier, Pearson disclosed that the General had been "severely reprimanded" by General Eisenhower...
Zionists, Liberals, a spokesman for the Ottawa Government found various ways to call Duplessis a liar. But his plot still had vote-getting possibilities: 1) it appealed to anti-Semitic prejudice already fostered by Fascist elements in Quebec; 2) it revived an old French-Canadian suspicion that open-door immigration is English Canada's device to offset the expanding French-Canadian population of the province; 3) it implied a threat of new competition in predominantly agricultural Quebec...