Word: slur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used pert Washington Star Columnist Doris Fleeson to further his ends. He quoted from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
Southern Congressmen, most of whom were among the 109 Democrats who had voted for the bill, exploded, demanded that the slur on their honor be expunged. It soon was. Next day Bob Hannegan meekly wired that the offending words were the unfortunate mistake of a misguided writer, who had already quit...
...March 4 issue is certainly a slur at the common man's help and protector...
...whom quickly identified themselves as "not the man you want to see." The marines finally reached the office of cigar-chewing Managing Editor William C. Wren. They told him in purple, ear-banging marine lingo what they thought of the editorial. Said the marines politely: apologize for the slur, or give us space to reply...
Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...