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...Bogus Documents." While Egypt was failing to make Turkey apologize. Great Britain demanded that the Soviet Government apologize last week for statements recently made in the Moscow Izvestia ("News"). Specifically Izvestia has charged that the British Intelligence Service is preparing "bogus documents" to prove that Dictator Josef Stalin, acting through the Moscow headquarters of the World Communist Party (Third International) had something to do with fomenting the British "Hunger March" on London (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). A British motive for its alleged propaganda, according to Izvestia, was a desire to prevent a rapprochement between U. S. and Soviet Governments...
...spite of its caustic critics the advertising industry continues to poison its own wells. The latest example of the inept bogus is a telegram from the Realsilk Hosiery Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that...
...case which is full of counterfeit money. With both Dr. Bernard and the counterfeiters on his trail Doug displays his acrobatic inheritance to good advantage in a thrilling dash through and above a switch yard of moving trains. Complications ensue when Joan is arrested for passing some of the bogus cash and the alcoholic pal walks off with the evidence; but the tangle unwinds somehow and everyone is happy...
Harvard proudly announces her acquisition of a splendid collection of the renowned Shakespeare forgeries which were foisted upon a blinking world in the eighteenth century by William Henry Ireland. This assortment is extremely complete, and includes bogus manuscripts, letters, and signatures. Now is the time for some scholar to bring endless discomfiture to the banks of the Charles, by proving that the collection is genuine, and, therefore, spurious. -The Cornell...
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