Word: charlatan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacifist Charlatan? Continued the reporter de luxe: "I told him we French wanted assurance of his sincerity. He said: France will do well to reflect on my offers of understanding. Never has the head of Germany made such offers or so often repeated them. And from whom come these offers? From a pacifist charlatan who made a specialty of international relations? By no means. But from the greatest nationalist Germany ever had at its head...
Representative C. (for Charles) Jasper Bell of Kansas City made the chief argument for the investigation. Said he: "The late years of depression . . . have been a fertile field in which these quacks and charlatans, these false prophets of social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...
...This method of treatment has been outrageously exploited not only by the out-&-out charlatan but by the ignorant but nearly honest layman seeking to earn an income by giving irrigations for sundry diseases at so much per treatment. Finally, and most unfortunate of all, there are those within the ranks of the medical profession itself, usually self-styled 'gastro-enterologists,' who have fitted, out elaborate suites of offices with one or more 'colonic lavagatories...
...writer. But certainly his work is head and shoulders above the rank and file of those writing verse in this country. Moreover, he has preserved both honesty of intention and vigorous independence as a craftsman. Yet to your many readers he is presented almost in the role of a charlatan...
...first reaction might well be dismay at the gullibility of a learned committee which permitted itself to be duped by so glib a charlatan. Even his name, now that it's all over, seems a little too well chosen. But when one considers the success of such men as Dr. Cook and Prince Harry F. Romanoff, one cannot be too harsh with a faculty which trusted a man skillful enough to elude the Reich's police for four years...