Word: slanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we have rights too." Green's rage has a specific source: he was accused of taking a bribe by a motorist he had stopped. Green has become something of a folk hero among cops because, imitating the militancy of civil rights groups, he sued the motorist for slander and won a $1,000 settlement...
...brought Prince Bernhard's name into the Lockheed scandals, told Senate investigators that Strauss and the C.S.U. had received at least $10 million for West Germany's purchase of 900 F-104 Starfighters in 1961. The party and its leader denied the allegations, and Strauss filed a slander suit against Hauser. The quarrel ended what was left of a longstanding friendship that went back to Mauser's days as a U.S. Army intelligence officer during the postwar occupation of Germany. Hauser had helped Strauss get his start in local Bavarian politics, and Strauss repaid him years later...
...archfiend among these politicians was Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who used his committee chairmanship to conduct a campaign of terror and slander, before which even President Eisenhower buckled. Early in 1950 McCarthy waved in his hand a piece of paper that he claimed bore the names of 205 Communists knowingly employed by the State Department (the Communists were as real as the Salem witches). And it was only after the 1954 elections that he was at last brought low and formally censured by the Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary...
Enough is enough. We have had your Nixon slander up to here...
...political" primaries, of William Loeb, the kike-teaser, the publisher who turned steadfast Edmund Muskie into a tear-filled bundle of Ibogaine-scotted nerves on a flatbed truck in 1972. But this primary is greater than William Loeb, who incidentally has gone so far to remove his image of slander-mongerer as to publish Democratic candidates' press releases largely uncut and unedited. The 1976 primary's rhetoric is too thick, fast and furious for Loeb to pin any one candidate down--although it is to Birch Bayh's credit that he's received an editorial blast against his stands...