Word: hatchetmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cries of alarm from the professional hatchetmen were to be expected. "This evil man, bent on war, must be checked," shouted Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who was promptly countered by New York's Republican Congressman Kenneth Keating for giving "aid and comfort" to the Communist enemy. Massachusetts' John Kennedy, stumping for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, blamed Dulles for having been caught in Quemoy and Matsu, implying that the U.S. should somehow have found a way to slip the islands out from under the Nationalists on the sly. Notably, leading Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai...
...editorial hatchetmen kept swinging to the end-and even afterward. Of his assassination, the Dallas Herald wrote: "God almighty ordered this event." Houston's Tri-Weekly Telegraph crowed: "From now until God's judgment day, the minds of men will not cease to thrill at the killing of Abraham Lincoln." But the press was not altogether blind to history. In 1864, during Lincoln's campaign for a second term, the Chicago Tribune stumped for him with prophetic words: "Half a century hence, to have lived in this age will be fame. To have served it well will...
...Hatchetmen Smear." To a thunder clap of applause Stevenson declared that "Main Street cannot prosper while the back country is in trouble." On the outlook for peace: "We are spending $40 billion a year for peace, and there is none. Our situation is more perilous than ever . . . While the President smiles, the hatchetmen smear; while the President talks earnestly of peace, the Secretary of State brandishes the bomb and threatens atomic...
Novelist (Studs Lonigan) James T. Farrell said it was overbalanced with works by Communist "hatchetmen" and showed "inexcusable sloppiness." Wrote Brown University's Labor Economist Philip Taft: "You deserve a vote of thanks from the Communist Party." Reviewing the bibliography in the New Leader, the I.L.G.W.U.'s Dr. John A. Sessions noted astonishing omissions. Example: the morumentally anti-Communist autobiography of Angelica Balabanoff, onetime first secretary of the Communist International. The bibliography, wrote Sessions, "has no room for the works which have hurt the Communists most...
Last week, in her East Side apartment, 50-year-old Libby Holman, no tragic figure, was happily immersed in her "theater piece." Why did she change to ballads? "The songs are much richer and deeper than smarty-pants Tin Pan Alley." The mixed critical opinion? "I never read the hatchetmen. You can't change what you're doing just because some people don't like it." From Broadway Libby will take Blues on a brief East Coast tour, then perhaps to India and Japan. "No retiring to a chicken farm for me," she says...