Word: slandering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office." It is the first time the writer has ever been aware that either a man's generosity or his loyalty to his Party should be subject to criticism or slander. As for my ambition to hold office-this in itself is ridiculous. I have never held public office and have repeatedly stated in the publication with which I am associated that I never expect to hold one. Therefore, it would seem that you take malicious delight in endeavoring to embarrass...
...Recoverers Dudley Field Malone and Herbert Bayard Swope for being "servitors" of Jimmy Walker, and at Governor Lehman, President Roosevelt's good friend, for failing to act on Seabury recommendations for city reform. Thus attacked, these men swung back at Seabury and Fusion. "A base and reckless slander!" cried Joe McKee at Judge Seabury's attack on Governor Lehman, whose
...Hungary by announcing that the Habsburgs are now willing to come back on the cheap. "We need have no fear of extravagance!" cried Father Greiger. "Otto has told me that on becoming King of Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...
...Prussian Diet were refused permission to join the Nazis last week and became ''men without a party." Most of them were expected to resign their seats. The decree of the Catholic Centre executives dissolving the party was piteously abject. They begged that Catholic dignitaries be "protected from slander" in the Nazi Press and that physical property belonging to Catholic Centrist Party headquarters be not confiscated. "A political revolution." they declared, "has placed German state life on a completely new basis which leaves no room for party activity. The German Centre Party, therefore, dissolves itself in agreement with Chancellor...
...civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal slander, won a conviction. The judge, however, suspended sentence because of "the rashness of youth." Later Huey Long helped that judge on to the State Supreme Court...