Word: slurrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard to forgive is the implied comparison ... of the regrettable Benito with Mr. Toad (TIME, Aug. 9). I have known Toad for 25 years, and I resent the slur upon his good name. He is a windbag, no doubt, but generous and lovable, with no harm...
...Ignoring Administration pleas for moderation, ignoring organized labor's threats to purge them, come election time, the House passed (231-10-141) the Smith-Connally strike-and-labor-control bill. Aimed squarely at John Lewis, the bill bristles with restrictions on labor. Mildest Administration slur at the measure, during hearings, came from Labor Secretary Madam Frances Perkins (who had presented her usual package of charts and statistics to show that there are fewer than a microscopic number of strikes): "The bill is most unwise." The bill went on to the Senate-House conference committee...
...Without slur on the patriotism of selectees, the Navy had long contended that for itself and its sister service the run of the draft would not do. The physical standard for sailors and marines would have to be well above Army standards, because the services afloat often send men far from hospital facilities, must therefore have only the rugged...
...quit work at my studio. Such a statement reflects most seriously on my professional integrity and has done me great harm in the motion-picture industry and elsewhere. Nor, despite whatever pipe dream gave you the notion, was any plumber blown through my cellar door. Your most vicious slur was that "even escape into the anonymity of the Army is impossible-Flynn has 'athlete's heart.'''. . . My record for "escaping" is in the Army files...
...reasons for dropping Serrano into the political ashcan. Three months ago in Rome, Pope Pius XII dressed him down for his sparsity of morals and his abundance of pro-Axis sympathies. Leaving the audience in a white rage, Serrano reportedly cracked: "This fellow is impossible!" In Catholic Spain the slur was intolerable. Even worse was Serrano's bumble of Aug. 15 when his Falangist thugs tossed a grenade into a crowd coming out of Bilbao Cathedral...