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Meanwhile, for the first time, Virginia's powerful and respected Senator Harry Byrd delivered a pointed attack on Mc-Carthyism. "Mr. Matthews," he said, "should give names and facts to sustain his charge or stand convicted as a cheap demagogue, willing to blacken the character of his fellow Americans for his own notoriety and personal gain...
...question of influence peddling. Said he: "I challenge these accusers to bring forth a single person with whom I was in contact who will stand up to me and say I exercised any political influence ... A set of circumstances was deliberately twisted and distorted in a calculated plot to blacken my name and destroy my usefulness in my present position...
Meanwhile, the assembled Congressmen breathed scorching blasts at Representative Hall. "I hesitate to dignify him by calling him a gentleman," cried California's Carl Hinshaw. "A dastardly effort to blacken the reputation of a man that cannot be blackened," cried Illinois' Mrs. Marguerite Church...
...drinker, and I don't approve of drunkenness. I also don't approve of people who blacken the memories of 3,000 dead men who are not able to speak for themselves. Sunday morning is a day when things are allowed to ease off, in the Army, at least. The Japs had that in mind. But in spite of their well-planned action, there were a lot of men who fought back, surprised...
...only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...