Word: slanderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas' professional Republicans, the dry law is a sacred cow. For 66 years-long before national prohibition came & went-they have tended it lovingly, warded off all abuse and slander. They simply looked the other way while millions of quarts of bootleg stuff poured across the border from Missouri and Colorado...
...smoking Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, was in London and gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier yelled and babbled until Greek officials hustled the audience out of earshot. One of the Greeks put his hand to his head and mumbled...
...advertisers into protesting on his behalf. Sometimes public officials leap up to defend him. When Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, compared him to Hitler last week, Senator Tom Stewart hurriedly took the floor of the Senate to cry: "Mrs. Meyer seeks to slander the South and its greatest leader...
Simonov added a word about national policy in answer to a question about the chauvinism of the Russian press: "If I thought American press slander of the U.S.S.R. were typical of the United States, I should never have come to visit...
...part stating that I objected that he should not have batted so as to win one game because it might hurt the attendance for the following game is a vile slander. . . . My reputation for personal and moral integrity is far above such baseness...