Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power to refrain from adjusting its neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia by introducing foreign tensions. . . . Never trust the British-when things...
...That the use of various seals, coupled with assurances appearing throughout the magazine, "mislead . . . the . . . public into the erroneous belief that all articles advertised . . . or articles which bear the seal in one of its several forms, have been scientifically tested in ... laboratories. . . . In truth and in fact, all the articles . . . have not been tested and approved by any scientific laboratory...
...Magazines Inc. filed registration statements with SEC for $35,500,000 of debentures. But SEC never got a chance to pass on the issues. New York Civil Service Commissioner Paul Kern and a Manhattan accountant named Bernard Reis filed a brief objecting to the registration statements as "tending to mislead the public." Hearst kept deferring the effective date of the issues. Hounded by creditors, in June 1937 he took a train to New York and went to see Judge Shearn. This time Mr. Hearst was more than strapped. This time Hearst was desperate...
...writing to call your attention to the article published on p. 38 of TIME, Dec. 26, concerning the report made by the Committee on Fundamental Cancer Research. We are afraid that some of the statements made in the article will mislead the public...
...ideals of the League are grand and magnificent, and I'll never believe they are not ultimately attainable, but we cannot bring them nearer by pretending they are within our grasp today. Why should we mislead them by giving people assurance of 'collective security' when such assurance can only be a delusion...