Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Moscow's Literary Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...
...months, Reporter Guthman gathered additional evidence that Rader was telling the truth. He found an optician's record to prove that Rader had broken his glasses at the Washington resort, a University of Washington library card showing he had withdrawn books in Seattle during the time he had supposedly been 3,000 miles away, and a Seattle voting record...
Managing Editor Russell McGrath of the conservative, successful Seattle Times (circ. 208,442) wound up his instructions to Reporter Edwin O. Guthman. Leaning across the desk in his office, McGrath told Guthman: "The courts have broken down. Now it's our job to find out the truth...
Guthman hustled out of the city room with a long-term assignment: to find the truth about Melvin Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser, ex-Communist George Hewitt, charged that Rader had attended a secret party school near Kingston, N.Y. for six weeks in the summer of 1938. Rader's reply was a detailed denial: he was not a Communist, and he had spent the summer of 1938 in Seattle and at Canyon...
...beginnings of Christianity that already includes bestselling lives of Christ (The Nazarene) and St. Paul (The Apostle). In both earlier books Asch had a dramatic lifeline to follow, and he followed it skillfully, feeding in a fascinating mass of scholarly wrinkles, though often he enlarged on Gospel truth. On Mary's life the Scripture is scant, and Asch had to enlarge still further. The result is a careful, reverent but sugar-sweet assembly of Aschpocrypha...