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...York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, who likes to remind readers that he was called a liar by Franklin D. Roosevelt, last week announced that he had made President Truman's list too. O'Donnell found out about his nomination from South Carolina's Governor
Journalist Treiber had made a dreadful mistake: Pankow is in the Russian sector of Berlin, not as he had thought in one of the Western sectors. When Freies Volk discovered Treiber's error, it quickly printed an abject retraction: "Rudi Treiber has been unmasked [and fired] ... as a liar and an agent provocateur." Said ex-Comrade Treiber lamely: "I just didn't know where Pankow...
...party meeting, Bevan taunted Attlee by saying, "Clem, you're a liar." Attlee sputtered back: "You are!" At that warm moment, Tom O'Brien, leader of the studio and theater workers' union, broke in: "May I propose that we transfer this meeting to Westminster Hall where we can have a brass plaque inserted in the floor to record for history, 'On this spot, the Labor Party committed suicide, aided and abetted by Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan...
...Word. On the TV screen, Taft at first seemed to take these charges calmly. But Sokolsky's temper had a lower ignition point. Tossing his mane, he shouted indignantly: "I resent very much anyone giving the impression that Senator Taft is a liar, and if I were Senator Taft I would rise now and leave this program . . . Only scoundrels lie. And the word 'lie' is a bad word, and when a man impugns the truth of another man, he places himself outside good manners, and I resent...
...this time, Senator Taft had begun to show resentment, too. McCrary had called him a liar, he said, and he demanded that McCrary "withdraw that statement." McCrary denied calling anyone a liar, and he refused to withdraw anything. Faye, smiling through incipient tears, suggested that everyone had reached "a pretty irreconcilable point," but she couldn't silence her bickering guests in time for more than a hasty sign-off announcement...