Word: oxblood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge newspaper ads to revile Browning and Kefauver. He repeated old slurs on Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
...doing both-by attacking Boss Crump. Thereupon the Boss took over the real campaigning. He bought big ads in Tennessee dailies (most of which favor Kefauver), blasted away at Kefauver's "tainted Red record in Congress." Blustered Crump: "I'd as soon vote for Vito Marcantonio . . . the oxblood Red Communist of New York City." He likened Kefauver to "a pet coon" that turns its head in innocence, "while its foot is feeling around" for something to filch...