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...nearly five years Williams has rocked the country again & again with scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He is no sensation monger. He carefully waits until he thinks his case is airtight, then submits it to the man or the office he is about to attack, promising to print any denial or rebuttal in the Congressional Record along with his charge. Williams says he has never made an accusation of crime that has not been followed by an indictment. He works alone (his only "investigator" is a girl secretary). Many of his leads have been picked up and developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Pulled a Thread | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Most of them were mere bush league skirmishes, and none has been half so serious as its write-up in the nation's newspapers. If any groups have relished the disturbances more than the participants, they have been the tawny tabloids, the provincial press, or others of the hyperbole-monger...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Grim Police, Gay Students Battling Since 163 | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

...Paris, Andrei Vishinsky unreeled a long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Hopeless? | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...part of the function of the Christian minister to be a keeper of the door, to discriminate, to let in or to exclude, provided the criterion be Christ's own . . . The prevailing interpretation of the Christian minister as a gullible, affable sacrament-monger has served the Church ill for three generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words of the Week | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had thumped indefatigably, through eight weeks of U.N. meetings, for Moscow's version of "peace." His loudest bang, echoed by ing" noisy from whacks the at Western Communist "war-monger-propaganda machine around the world, was a proposal for a five-power non-aggression pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Essentials of Peace | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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