Word: untruthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phrase of Mr. Houghton's, the President is "surrounded by Harvard men." The untruth of such a generalization has often been shown. Professor Frankfurter's influence in the New Deal has always been an interesting myth, and, even the slight power he had in 1933 has since vanished. Professor Sprague was an adviser with the stamp of Harvard too strongly upon him, and as a result was dropped from the New Deal wagon almost as soon as he had hitched a ride. If prominent New Deal agencies employ young lawyers from Harvard Law School, the corporation offices of New York...
...Attention has been called to an article which appeared this morning in the New York Journal to the effect that Mrs. Huey P. Long is reliably reported to be engaged to remarry. I am authorized to state for Mrs. Long that no more damnable, deliberate untruth has ever been published and that unless satisfactory apology and public retraction is made, the publishers of such a story will be prosecuted...
...David Lawrence, who attacked the contention that "political facts" are all right, but "political skits" improper. Said he: "If the broadcasting companies ever attempt to separate fiction from fact in respect to political speeches, they will have to employ censors far more skillful in the separation of truth from untruth than the Justices of the Supreme Court themselves...
Professor Owen hit the head-lines last night, not by killing his grandmother with a sash-weight, not by becoming Governor of Massachusetts, not by inventing a perpetual motion machine, but, very simply, by alleging a spectacular untruth to be true...
That is an absolute untruth as are many of Mr. Parker Morell's anecdotes in his story of "Diamond...