Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said the University of Kansas' new Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy: "Character assassination by innuendo and half truth, with careless regard for the facts . . . will inevitably lead to a paralysis of free thought just as debilitating to American democracy as the conduct of those who would utilize American institutions to overthrow and subvert these same institutions . . . Stifle the intellectual freedom of our universities, and you stop the progress of American democracy." ¶ Said Cornell's new President Deane W. Malott, former chancellor of the University of Kansas: "The fearful ones who hate and condemn the liberalism in our colleges...
Commando Tactics. But there, anticlimactically, Maurice Tobin dropped the subject. He scrupulously avoided mentioning Joe McCarthy by name. He barely skirted the real case against McCarthyism-the technique of innuendo and slippery half-truths that deliberately confuses ends and means. And, with his glancing blow, he gave McCarthy's supporters just the right opening for a burst of commando tactics. Before Tobin could walk off the platform, a delegate grabbed a floor microphone. Over the loudspeakers his voice boomed out: "I demand that we invite Comrade McCarthy here to give us the other side of this story...
...mayor, firing back from the depths of the American embassy in Mexico City, cried that the committee's conclusions were "fantastic." Said he: "For reasons unknown to me, a concerted effort has been made, by inference and innuendo, to discredit me on a personal basis. Of this I have no fear. My public life is a matter of record . . . My achievements were hailed on all sides...
...Home-Ma's Upstairs (Nellie Lutcher; Capitol; 45 r.p.m.). Another empty-parlor innuendo by the breathless, excitable Nellie Lutcher of Hurry On Down fame...
...getting "dialogue assists" from Actress Drake) wants to picture "a very attractive couple in the $25,000-a-year class...the kind of people we'd like most to be." The show will contain "no platforms, no politics, no message." Nothing, in fact, but a little spicy innuendo and a succession of comic crises based on domestic misunderstandings...