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Next day, with the story thoroughly deflated, Democratic pressagents had their fling. In their daily press release they accused the Republican National Committee of attempting to besmirch "the sterling character and unblemished reputation" of "one of the finest officers of the U. S. Army," directly accused the GOP publicity staff of concocting the whole story. As usual, though, the corrections never made the front pages, never caught up with the canard...
...observations: "It is unethical to accept the pastorate of a church and then by word or act seek to deflect that church from its cooperating affiliations. . . . It is considered unethical for one minister to make professional calls on members of other churches. . . . One must not malign another minister or besmirch his reputation. If all the truth must be spoken, let it be spoken in ministerial affection." To succeed President Franklin the Northern Baptists elected Herbert B. Clark, banker, of North Adams, Mass...
...swell being a nudist. Since I have been here in New York I have had lobsters almost every night and real French champagne. My press agent said for me to say that the girls in the night clubs besmirch the cause of nudism but I think they are very sweet. I would like to be in a night club myself...
When the case was brought before him eight weeks ago Justice Carew ruled at once that it was up to Mrs. Whitney to prove that Mrs. Vanderbilt could not be trusted to rear and educate her daughter properly. Mrs. Whitney promptly set out to besmirch her sister-in-law's reputation, to show that in the years when she was gadding about Paris, Cannes, Biarritz and Deauville with her hard-drinking, hard-living friends she had paid no heed at all to Gloria's upbringing. Mrs. Harry Hays Morgan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, turned...
Months ago faithful Minister of Public Works McPherson charged that the suit was a political frame-up to ruin the Premier and besmirch Alberta's United Farmers Party in the person of its chief. But last week the Press had eyes chiefly for the plaintiff, beauteous, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan who is exactly the type Hollywood likes to cast for stardom in courtroom dramas of clean women and dirty politics...