Word: liar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Franklin D. Roosevelt called Washington Columnist Drew Pearson "a chronic liar." President Truman called him "an s.o.b." Last week Columnist Pearson got further presidential notice. Pearson had written that, unknown to newsmen cover ing President Eisenhower's recent "golfing-hunting sojourn" with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at Thomasville, Ga.. Vice President Nixon had paid Ike "a secret visit" to talk about his own renomination. Next day at Ike's press conference, a newsman asked: "At any time while you were in Thomasville. did Vice President Nixon meet with you there?" Replied the President emphatically...
...jury voted not guilty on two counts that Hughes lied in telling a grand jury that Rauh and his friends had discussed giving money to Harvey Matusow, the professional witness and chronic liar who declared that he had not told the truth about Communist activities. On other counts-to the effect that Hughes was lying when he depicted Rauh not as a dupe but an accomplice in his unsuccessful frame-up of McCarthy-the jury was "hopelessly deadlocked...
...Liar Earl Long!" In 1931 Huey moved on to serve four gaudy years in the U.S. Senate. Back home in Louisiana, however, Huey's slights and snubs, his withholding of the choicest of the plums, were beginning to pique Earl Long. One dramatic day Earl walked out on Huey, letting it be known that he, Earl, had fought Huey's childhood fistfights for him. Earl screeched, "Big-bellied coward!" Earl later confronted Huey, face distorted and arms flailing, during a U.S. Senate hearing on election fraud. When Earl intimated that Huey was susceptible to graft, Huey raged...
...neglect of this principle has led to the appointment of Dr. Oppenheimer to give the William James lectures. Dr. Oppenheimer is a confessed liar; he has admitted that he told a whole tissue of lies in a field in which the lives and safety of us all were concerned. He has violated the code of the gentleman and of the truth-seeking scholar. He has not repented. His ethical perceptions are not sensitive. He does not recognize the enormity of the thing that he did. The University has violated sound principles in giving him the cloak of its prestige. Robert...
Ginn resigned from the Harvard Fund Council, calling the noted physicist "a know Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." David McCord '21, executive secretary of the Council reported yesterday that Ginn's was the only letter attacking the appointment among many he received about...