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...Murray is a liar to the best of my knowledge and belief and always has been," cracked Steelman Girdler. "Senator Guffey doesn't know what he's talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Front | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...that's a rumor, that's a lie and whoever told you that is a liar!" shouted Mr. Girdler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Front | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...persevering, peppery researcher, Kenneth Roberts digs through piles of books and documents to get his facts, fills the margins of his source books with curt comments: "He's a liar. . . . Nuts. . . . Untrue. . . . The louse judgment of a literary louse. . . . What an ass!" He never hesitates to disagree with the knaves or fools who have smudged history's pages, and as he takes his belligerent way through their ranks they are constantly knocking the chip off his shoulder. This attitude has led Author Roberts into some historic underdog fights, notably in the case of Benedict Arnold (Rabble in Arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Downright Down-Easter | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...makes little difference whether the editor writes about mince pies or big politics. "Public opinion is not molded by editors." (Editor White figured that out before the election revelations of 1936.) And an editor with no inconsistencies is either a stuffed-shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he points out some of his own. He thinks he used to be too noisy boosting the wonders of Emporia and Kansas. He is "ashamed" that he called Bryan "a shallow fellow," and Socialist Eugene V. Debs "a charlatan," blushes over his flag-waving editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Country Editor | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Third-best liar was Mrs. C. B. Forman of Attalla, Ala. Her tall one: A whirling cyclone blew the knot out of an Alabaman's four-in-hand tie, whipped the tie around a greeting card and Christmas package which it delivered to the Alabaman's cousin in the next county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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