Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case, however, proves the German statements to be false. It has been shown by investigation that there are no accurate figures of the real financial status of Germany available. The German Government has carefully gone over the documents and arranged and falsified its financial statement in order to mislead the Allied commissioners. But by carefully checking up the German figures, it has been found that the Teutonic war debt is even less than that of the French. What debt there is, is largely owed to Germans, and therefore should be the last to be paid...
...International Association of Machinists, who is lecturing at the Graduate School of Business Administration for six weeks on "Labor Problems" stated in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. In many cases "this misunderstanding is due to the deliberate attempt on the part of certain persons to mislead the public by misinterpreting the purposes of labor organizations. To be sure, their primary aim is to better the working and living conditions of their own members, but just as important an aim is the betterment of people generally. A little investigation of the matter will convince any fair-minded person that...
...primary results "are a fraud upon the people and mislead thousands of well-meaning persons who have not been brought face to face with the facts." An exact description, which the American people, with their "ancient and inbred honesty and integrity," ought to make an obituary, of this costly humbug device to find out nothing. --New York Times...