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...newsmen gaped, moved on to the City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr...
Wrote Iron Ore, a newspaper in Ishpeming, Mich.: "According to Roosevelt, he is the only man who can call others liars, rascals and thieves, terms he applies to Republicans generally. . . . Roosevelt is a pretty good liar himself. . . . Roosevelt lies and curses in a most disgusting way; he gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently, and all his intimates know about it." (T. R. sued for libel, asked for nominal damages...
...painting of the noted Greek courtesan Phryne confounding her Athenian judges by her naked beauty, Puck's talented Gillam showed Republican Blaine standing coyly before his party leaders, his stout, bedrawered figure tattooed with his allegedly scandalous record. Democrats chanted: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the State of Maine." Republicans got dirt in their fingernails digging up the story of Maria Halpin, a dipsomaniac widow by whom Cleveland had had an illegitimate child. Republicans intoned: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!" Democrats ghoulishly chiseled out the date...
Still, there was something lacking. Said the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "The President cried 'Liar!' thirty-two times, and never mentioned the third term once...
...Stalin continued his game of seeming to keep both sides guessing. Some observers believed that it was merely to deepen the democracies' puzzlement about Russia's relations with Germany that the official Tass Agency rudely called Berlin a liar when Nazi Government quarters announced that Moscow was informed of all Axis moves. The Soviet press, including the Army organ Red Star, continued to praise the R. A. F., belittle by implication Hermann Göring's air-war machine...