Word: slandered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth was neatly divided into two groups, Socialists (pacifists) who not having seen the film were sure that All Quiet was the finest, most graphic war film ever produced; Nationalists and National Socialists (Fascists) who not having seen the film were equally sure that it was a slander on German courage and an insult to Germany's War dead. The Berlin premiere fortnight ago changed few opinions, but Herr Hitler's faithful Nazis took drastic means of expressing their disapproval. Not content with shouting denunciations at the screen, rioting in front of the theatre, they threw stink bombs over...
...belated dedication is not necessarily a reflection upon the dead but a dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor to those who participate. . . . Now the American people have never been swayed by the lip of libel or the tongue of slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary...
...statements that are issued under the names of party leaders. So sharp have been Composer Michelson's attacks on President Hoover that last week Chairman William Robert Wood of the Republican Congressional Campaign cried out in hurt protest, charged the Democrats and Mr. Michelson with a "plot" to slander the President and undermine his influence. The Democratic New York World promptly turned up the fact that G. O. Pressagent West was admitted to President Hoover's press conference in open violation of the rule excluding all but accredited newsmen...
...Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against him; the $7,500 slander suit his secretary, Miss Ethelyn Crane, won against him; the 1? verdict he was awarded in a breach of promise suit against Miss Crane; his desire to be the "dare-devil aviator of Congress" and his purchase of many an old Army plane that would...
...15?Retrial of $500,000 damage (by slander) suit against Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, Feb. 19, 1929 et seq.); in Manhattan...