Word: slander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-bitten George T. Baker, National's president, did not intend to keep his planes grounded, strike or not. He promptly fired his pilots for quitting, and filed notice that he would sue A.L.P.A. for $5,000,000 for "libel and slander." Last week he started replacing the strikers with non-union pilots. It was the first time an airline had tried to break a pilots' strike. By week's end, National claimed to have restored its service to 30% of normal...
...Referring to James C. Dunn, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Said Dunn later: "Infamous and pre-pesterous slander...
...debate, no quarter was asked or given. From the Assembly rostrum, Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky counterattacked with a 92-minute diatribe; the Soviet-controlled press rolled out its thunder of slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...
...Spaghetti He Eats." In Rome the dissident Socialist newspaper L'Umanitá, which dislikes about equally Russian Communism and U.S. capitalism, summed up the effect of the recent Red slander blitz against the U.S. Said L'Umanit...
...custom, but Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky had never tried it before. Last week, he summoned U.N. newsmen to a press conference at Lake Success. He had discovered the soft underbelly of democratic journalism. He had only to make any charge he wanted, or slander anyone he pleased, and U.S. newspapers would spread his words on Page...