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Governor Faubus is supported by the people of Arkansas, and you gain nothing by calling him a liar, a crook, or by making it appear that he has stirred up this trouble. He has not. He is carrying out the mandate of the majority of the citizens of his state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Robert ("Barney") Baker, liar, thief, union bullyboy and hash-house voluptuary, plopped his 284 Ibs. into a red leather chair facing the McClellan committee. For the next two days Teamsters' Organizer Baker answered questions while the heat from overhead television lamps sent sweat from his pomaded hair down his neck into a wilted white collar that flapped outside his tentlike coat. His lawyers had urged him to take the Fifth Amendment. But Baker decided to clown his way through a performance aimed at concealing a grimly important fact: Barney Baker is just the sort of specimen used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoffa's Funny Friend | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Editor Dunn, 59. an ex-University of Virginia halfback and baseball captain, landed some blows of his own. When the machine's Sun-News called him a liar, Dunn sued for libel, won a verdict (still under appeal) of $65,000-largest in the state's history. And though the Kellams stayed in power, the gamblers gradually began to leave Virginia Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amateur Editor | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Something snapped inside Trooper Tedbury. He flashed his unsheathed sword down from the vertical "Carry Sword" position, pointed it straight at Guide Reeves's throat and shouted over his chin strap: "You are a liar. Move on!" The 34 Americans retreated in disorder, and Guide Reeves found himself speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: En Garde! | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...British polemicists joined the Communists in their charge of germ warfare in Korea. But Strauss kept his reply in low key. Its net (in which the Pentagon joined): Not true. Pouted Anderson from his privileged sanctuary on the Senate floor: "He in effect four times calls me a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Chairman Steps Down | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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