Word: innuendo
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Slander & Innuendo. Furthermore, added Shaftel at the hearing, "I cannot imagine an academic administrator of any sense and magnitude and dignity saying to Sean O'Casey. . . : 'You may not teach the drama,' or telling Picasso: 'You cannot teach art in the United States.'" But, asked Jenner, what if a teacher "slants his teaching toward the Communist Party, which party's avowed purpose is the overthrow of this Government?" That, replied Shaftel, is something that "must be settled by the academic profession . . . This line of questioning is improper and does harm to the teaching profession...
This assurance, however, was little more than paper thin. In ensuing months, the Committee's loyalty check rapidly turned by innuendo into an attack on the Secretariat itself. When secretary-general Trygve Lie ordered employees to be silent on official U.N. business, O'Connor claimed this obstructed the Committee. He threatened any witness who followed Lie's order with punishment for contempt, and labeled the Secretariat a home of subversive activities in the United States...
Fascinating Finances. Possibly as a result of its troubles, the subcommittee resorted to some tactics which the foes of Joe McCarthy so thoroughly deplore: its report leaned heavily on insinuation and innuendo. First it rattled some old skeletons, e.g., whether McCarthy should have accepted $10,000 from the RFC-supported Lustron Corp. for a pamphlet on housing which he wrote while serving on Senate committees dealing with RFC and Lustron problems. Then it raised some questions about McCarthy's fascinating finances but did not provide clear answers. Some items...
Mistrust & Innuendo. In his Cleveland speech, Stevenson also attempted to turn the tables on his opponents. He began with Ike's foreign policy adviser John Foster Dulles. "In December 1946," said Stevenson, "Hiss was chosen to be president of the Carnegie Endowment by the board of trustees, of which John Foster Dulles was chairman." Shortly thereafter, said the governor, Dulles refused to believe a Detroit lawyer who informed him that Hiss had a provable Communist record...
...petition added that "if there is going to be an investigation, here, or elsewhere, of any individual, school or organization, let it be under safeguard of the law and not by headlines and innuendo...