Word: untruthfulness
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That is an absolute untruth as are many of Mr. Parker Morell's anecdotes in his story of "Diamond...
This, like a short speech he had made at Sacramento, was of course a final plea for California votes. At Sacramento, with some bitterness, he had said: "There has been increasing untruth and misrepresentation in some of the Press of California, and particularly by the Press of William Randolph Hearst. One would have thought that the President of the United States coming from California was a monster. If Mr. Hearst represented the ideals and the character of California, he would have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were...
...order that the country may know the untruth and distortions of fact in Chairman Gardiner's recent pronouncement, I will appoint a committee including members of the Navy League to whom agencies of the Government will demonstrate these untruths and distortions. . . . Upon its completion I shall expect Mr. Gardiner to make a public correction of his misstatement and his apology therefor. It is desirable for the public to know the character of this indirect campaign of misinformation to defeat the efforts of the Administration for reduction of the Federal expenditures not immediately essential in order that we may avoid increased...
...Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development" reads your description of President Hoover's visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4. ... A gross exaggeration and untruth and one for which TIME should be ashamed. . . . True the weather was inclement when the President honored Louisville with his visit-so inclement that plans formulated many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass...
...public. Said he: "I ask the American people not to believe me guilty of the damnable crime [bribery] of which I am innocent." He admitted only "two grave errors:" 1) "Borrowing" $100,000 from Doheny; 2) Attempting to hide its source from the Senate investigating committee "by an untruth...