Word: herring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repeatedly during the campaign, President Truman had charged that the House committee's investigation of the Hiss-Chambers case was nothing but a red herring to divert the voters' attention from campaign issues. But in view of the shocking new evidence, reporters trooping into Truman's press conference last week wondered what he would...
From a political standpoint, Truman's previous red-herring charges were understandable. They had been made at a stage when the Hiss-Chambers case was largely a debate between the two men as to whether they had ever known one another as fellow Communists. But, a reporter asked, did the President still think it was a red herring? He certainly did, Truman fired back-the' Un-American Activities Committee was not prosecuting anybody, it was just after headlines...
...advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
...Harry Truman was going to fight and keep on fighting, come hell or high water. He repeated, for the nth time, that the congressional investigations of Communism were just a political red herring. And as for Tom Dewey's promise to clean the Reds out of Washington-Harry Truman said he thought it was Dewey's intention to clean out Democrats, not Communists...
Commented the New York Herald Tribune, which has previously taken a skeptical view of the committee's work: "The committee has turned up a great deal more than a 'red herring' . . . has been unearthing important facts . . . has thrown valuable light upon the Communist problem...