Word: slur
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...Carl Childress [TiME, May 27] .is entitled to his opinion' of my article "The Conqueror" which you quoted in the May 6 TIME. He is not entitled to his gratuitous slur upon all chaplains when he refers to them as holders of noncombat commissions who came safely and comfortably through the war under the protection of combat soldiers. . . . Chaplains did hold noncombat commissions in that they carried no weapons. But they were assigned to every combat outfit in the Army, and had less protection than the average combat soldier since they did not carry weapons. Seventy-seven of them...
...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...