Word: slur
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...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...
...blustered that in rewriting the Banking Bill as it passed the House, Senator Glass and his subcommittee had been dominated by sinister "influences"-namely "Wall Street" and "the great New York bankers." Four of the six Senate conferees promptly refused to sit with him until he should retract his slur. Thereupon Representative Goldsborough uprose in the House, crawfished as follows: "Of course I was discussing issues and not personalities. ... I desire to say that I intended no reflection on the high patriotism, absolute integrity and high purpose of any member of the United States Senate...
Last year Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery was known to most racegoers as the horse that usually came in just after Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade. Actually, this was less a slur upon Discovery than upon the proverbial inattention of racegoers. Although it was true that Discovery was defeated by Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery...