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Liable to life imprisonment (Maine's maximum murder penalty) if convicted, Defendant Carroll sat calm, tight-lipped in court. His lawyers, presumably hoping to prove that Accuser Dwyer is a pathological liar, planned to call 62 witnesses. Among them: Barbara Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sixth Horror Story | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Laborites led in attacking Swinton's recent decision to buy some U. S. war planes (TIME, May 2), demanded a return to purchase of nothing but craft "built by honest British labor." Shouts of "Liar!" in which some Conservatives joined greeted a Government declaration that "British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...that the anarchists had not had a fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...reporter who covered the Roosevelt speech in Gainesville on March 23, as reported in your April 4 issue is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Honeycombe said that he once worked in the American Communist Party in California, and in general his long statement was annoying to the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln-George Washington Battalion, spokesmen for whom were soon declaring in Manhattan: "Honeycombe is nothing but a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abies & Georgies | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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