Word: slandering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter. In replying to discussion he was not heckled, for there was a chance to correct him in further discussion. He well realized this and it was only in his remarks closing the meeting that he dared make the accusation that caused the outburst. That was the slander that the POUM and the Trotskyites were in the pay of General Franco...
Although the parties of the left have always been known for the bitterness of their quarrels, it has been left to Stalinism to introduce the methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists...
...that last slander that led me to become discourteous and "violent" even in the hallowed Philosophy building. George L. Weissman '39, President, Harvard Socialist League...
...announced that "Honest" Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
From gross income you may exclude alimony, damages collected for breach of promise, alienation of affections, libel or slander. You may deduct money spent to get a job, automobile expenses (including fines for negligent driving), the cost of dental work to replace teeth knocked out in pursuit of duty, money spent on unsuccessful inventions...