Word: slur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assert that the ordinary U. S. citizen grows excited about politics only once every four years and thinks about Government only when his mail goes astray is a trite slur on the national intelligence. Last week vigilant patriots felt reluctantly impelled to believe that there might be some truth in it. Difficult to explain otherwise was the public indifference which greeted President Roosevelt's proposal of the most momentous change in U. S. Government and politics since Andrew Jackson perfected the spoils system. Possibly, however, citizens were simply baffled because the President had packaged his dynamite-a proposal...
...Jane," immersed in a jar of water without any ill result. An unnamed, ordinary doll was shown in a similar underwater position, in a state of disintegration. Saying that dolls in general are not supposed to be "amphibian," the Federal Trade Commission resented the pictures as an unfair, competitive slur on the landlubber doll, ordered American Character Doll to show cause why it should not "cease and desist" from such comparisons...
...Many a slur was cast upon this poll because the word "now" in capitals was conceived to imply "After all this, can you really approve the New Deal?" To this the Digest answered that "NOW" was capitalized because it took a similar poll in 1934 and wanted to register changes in sentiment. So incredulous were observers of the strong anti-New Deal returns that other objections to the poll multiplied. Harvard Economics Professor W. L. Crum pointed out in the Wall Street Journal a statistical error. In 1932, 55% of Illinois voters balloted for Roosevelt. As a group this...
TIME, Oct. 7, by an unfortunate, and I am sure unintentional implication, casts grave slur at my close friend and respected mentor, Dr. John F. "Jafsie" Condon. Passage follows: "Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie") Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. . . ." The article and passage quoted continues to enumerate other incidents in citation of "individual and public drunkenness...
...Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President...