Word: slanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, is in the hands of the President: there has been a steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady an in crease of funds for armaments; and right now the Dies Committee is engaging in its campaign to slander and disorganize liberal movements in academic circles. There is more danger from such forces outside the academic world than from individual college officials to whom academic freedom is in Mr. Greene's words, "a matter of taste." And there is the further danger that we will voluntarily relinquish our freedom...
...conscious of their moral obligations are its editors that they publish no divorce actions, no slander suits, no suicides. Some years ago a member of the Argentine Cabinet killed himself, explaining in a note that because of political opposition he could no longer do what was best for the nation, no longer cared to live. Next day La Prensa simply said that he had "died suddenly...
...greatest of all Secretaries of the Treasury but was, of course, much too young and inexperienced to have been President. In this country men from 40 to 50, having failed at every venture, worm, shout and lie their way into Congress. Once there they will stop at no lie, slander, or debt wished upon posterity, if they think it will keep them there. Members of the Congress, of course, should not be allowed to serve successive terms. Neither should Presidents. To date the cost of reelections in this country is most of the National Debt. Youth should...
...Poland. . . . Thunderstruck, Premier Molotov gasped, drew back, while the veins of his forehead stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland of the toiling masses, the vanguard of the antifascist struggle; that any ambassador could believe such a slander of the Socialist State made him, Molotov, wonder if he was the proper ambassador to be accredited to it. The Chinese Ambassador left, to read in Pravda the next day the laconic notice that the agreement had been made. Molotov hadn't been told...
...ally had a lot to talk about, because the Europe that spread before them is already at war. It is a war of words and nerves, a war fought with weapons so strange and novel that they make machine guns look like good old cross-bows-rolling barrages of slander timed to the minute; ceaseless bombardments of rumors, blankets of lies and alarms as blinding as poison gas; provocations exploding like mines before advancing troops; flank attacks of economic reprisals, feints with threats, promises, atrocities, radio broadcasts, newspaper assaults launched simultaneously and redirected at noon...