Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
With characteristic bad taste, TIME (Dec. 24) compounds and inflates all the vicious innuendo of defense counsel under the heading "Trial by Stage Whisper" [a report of the trial of Tallulah Bankhead's ex-maid, for kiting checks]. Said TIME: "The defense attorney had complained bitterly that there were 'two trials going on in this courtroom.' " Since TIME brazenly endorsed that fiction it should have added . . . that it was conducting a third trial, with me as its target...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue. Day after the Chicago lawyer testified, Charles Oliphant, the bureau's chief counsel, dashed off an angry letter of resignation to Harry Truman. The charge that he was part of a clique seeking payoffs was "fantastic," he said. The "attacks, vilification, rumor and innuendo are beyond the point of human endurance...