Word: falsehoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret deeply." said President de Valera in the Dail last week, "that I should have given publicity to a falsehood. I tender my apologies to Deputy Mulcahy...
...days after the interview appeared, the Press received copies of a telegram from Vines to Prentice. Excerpts: "Terribly upset over such a falsehood. . . . How such statements start is beyond me. ... I have only the highest regard for yourself and your judgment. Please believe...
Resenting the charge of falsehood, the AP last week flung it back in Vines's face with a statement that: 1) Vines had amplified his original remarks, to his teammates and to sports writers in Los Angeles. 2) He sent his telegram of denial immediately following a conference with tennis officials. The AP quoted Sports Editor Carens: "I had a 40-minute talk with Vines and agreed to hold the story until after he was beaten at Los Angeles. As you know, I have 23 years of sports writing experience and I do not misquote athletic celebrities...
...back pay, testified that he had been engaged to publicize Mr. Blumenthal, his wife Peggy Fears (onetime Follies girl), their shows and the fact that Mr. Blumenthal was an intimate of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, when Mayor. Mr. Blumenthal called the last allegation "a malicious and gratuitous falsehood." So public a character has Mr. Blumenthal become that the New Yorker felt it must look him up, last week reported...
...things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week of Mexico's new young Provisional President Abelardo L. Rodriguez: "In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the encyclical . . . whose tone does not surprise us because methods filled with falsehood against this country are characteristic of the Papacy. . . . "In answer to the open incitation made to the clergy to provoke agitation, I declare that at the slightest manifestation of disorder the Government will proceed with full energy to resolve definitely this problem, which has cost this nation so much blood and sacrifice...