Word: slanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were no bank runs in Allentown next business day, but last week the Republican National Committee received a letter for Nominee Knox from Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking Luther A. Harr. After citing the State's law against financial slander, Secretary Harr, a Democrat in a Democratic State Administration, declared: "Your statement is so sweeping as to include every bank and savings institution in the State, but I will not stand on technicalities. If you have information that one bank or savings institution in this State is unsafe, I am willing to accept that as sufficient justification...
...factional fights that surrounded him. Subtitled The Death Struggle of the Federalists, most of the book's 538 pages detail the decline of the brilliant party that, disregarding the warnings of Hamilton, went in for a suicidal policy of revenge, turned from an obstructionist campaign to forth right slander, from slander to treason, with "the destruction of the Union as a party policy...
Feen-A-Mint's William H. Berg was especially wrought up over "street hawkers and pitchmen who peddle drugs from suitcases and wagons. They do $15,000,000 business a year. They slander our advertised products. They slander the American Medical Association. They should be stopped." Recently stopped by court order was Philadelphia Nuva-Dex Co., generally rated the biggest supplier of psyllium seeds, liniments and cure-alls of this irregular commerce...
...sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault & battery. Always settle them cases yourself...
...gross slander to say that we are casting aspersions at either the American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We desire to cooporate with them to the fullest extent. Our aims, ideals, and purposes are identical...