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Like Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar considers Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. Last week on the Senate floor the feuding, 75-year-old Tennessean said so, 23 times, in a speech covering three and a half pages of the Congressional Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Personal | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...about McKellar's choleric temper and his insatiable hunger for patronage. That afternoon the bulb-nosed Senator took advantage of a large audience, proceeded to bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar for a living, a liar in the attempt to amuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Personal | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Drew Pearson (621 papers, circ. 18,000,000) is the most widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Know-lt-Alls | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Mosquito pilot nervously shot the thing down, then headed home, wondering glumly how he was going to report this without acquiring a permanent reputation as the R.A.F.'s biggest liar. Intelligence officers, finally convinced, guessed the monstrosity might have been an experimental glider tow plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Siamese Twin | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Cried Bill Jack: "If anyone says Jack & Heintz are profiteers . . . he is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RENEGOTIATION: 5% Is Enough | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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