Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a delinquent kid who is not worth a darn, but I wish to enter a protest anyway against G.O.P. National Chairman Dean Burch's thoughtless slander against us kids [Aug. 28]. It seems a great shame that all kids are berated for the misdeeds...
...content merely to sue Craig and the co-defendants (to be named later) for slander and defamation of character, Belli also offered his opinion as to their effect on American law. If the leaders of the American Bar Association have their way, he argued, they will "make of the magnificent American trial lawyer a suckling Bugs Bunny or a John Birch athletic supporter for certain insurance companies and economic interests...
...eminently fair shake you gave Goldwater in the cover story shows me that, unlike your competitors, you are resisting infestation by sentimental young leftists who do not stop at slander to promote self-intoxication with the morally superficial sensationalism which must fill the vacuum of their historical ignorance...
...another of Barry's many lip-shooting remarks. "I believe it most unfortunate," said Scranton, "that the present front-running candidate for our presidential nomination has embarrassed our party by announcing that people who are poor have only their stupidity or their laziness to blame. This is a slander on the thousands of good Americans who through no fault of their own have been caught in the backlash of our urbanized, industrialized, fast-moving society. There is a need for the party of Lincoln to remember that 'there but for the grace...
...injustice, but hardly any sense of personal integrity. Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting in a mellifluous baritone from his pulpit in Detroit, berated the callous bankers and businessmen who, he said, had brought on the Depression. But like Curley, Coughlin had no positive remedies; his Sunday sermons became exercises in slander. Before he was finally forced off the air by dwindling financial support, Coughlin was denouncing Jews and calling for a Franco-type rebellion in the U.S. Joe McCarthy derived most of his support from the "worst, the weakest and most outdated parts of the Irish experience. He was a rascally...