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...service; ex-Private Erich Glaser, 28, of the U. S. Air Corps, who was unfortunate enough to be the friend of a U. S. Army deserter named Guenther Gustav Rumrich. Deserter Rumrich pleaded guilty, turned Government evidence, inspired Judge John C. Knox to call him "at times an unmitigated liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wages of Sin | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...campaign for reelection, most of the newspapers have frankly slanted news and headlines to favor his youthful, gladhanding, Republican opponent, Harold E. Stassen. (A notable exception: the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star.) The angry Governor did not help matters by declaring that every daily paper in the State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator had given them interviews even while he was taking a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters Know! | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...official Communist Party organ Pravda ("Truth") charged: "He [Lindbergh] had an order from English reactionary circles to prove the weakness of Soviet aviation and give Chamberlain an argument for capitulation at Munich in connection with Czechoslovakia. The bribed liar, Lindbergh, fulfilled the order of his masters. That explains everything!" Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, according to Pravda, were "cordially and sincerely received by the Soviet people" when they visited Russia in 1933, but last August "nobody invited him [to Russia] and if he was permitted to come it was because Americans had requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Explains Everything! | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...refute what the Colonel was supposed to have affirmed, Pravda supplied a deposition signed by eleven leading Soviet airmen who called Charles Augustus Lindbergh a "stupid liar, a lackey and a flatterer of German Fascists." "According to information in the highest quarters in London, Paris and Prague," said the Soviet airmen, "the Soviet air fleet is quantitatively at least equal to the combined German and Japanese air forces and is qualitatively much superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Explains Everything! | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS-Marcos Spinelli -Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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