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...anti-Soviet. A trashy, sexy, satirical novel authored by Bullitt in 1926 was exhumed and printed serially in the Philadelphia Daily News to brand Candidate Bullitt as a man who approved of loose living. Bullitt's lifted-pinkie horror of Philadelphia slums was interpreted as a public slur on every right-thinking Philadelphian's civic pride. At the last moment, Franklin Roosevelt called the attacks on Bullitt a "mass of falsehoods." But the endorsement had no effect. Bill Bullitt was hurled back into private life; Barney Samuel got ready for four years of complaints about the nauseous drinking...
...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...