Word: slurrings
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...youthful, gladhanding, Republican opponent, Harold E. Stassen. (A notable exception: the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star.) The angry Governor did not help matters by declaring that every daily paper in the State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator had given them interviews even while he was taking a bath...
...Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor for casting a slur on his girl, bundled him into the trunk of his own car and then taken his wife searching for him, killed Mrs. Littlefield when she grew suspicious, cruised through six States for three days with his gruesome cargo. After changing the details of this narrative four times, Paul Dwyer...
...girl whom Paul Dwyer accused old Dr. Littlefield of slurring was blonde, pert Barbara Carroll, 17-year-old daughter of a South Paris deputy sheriff. Since Dwyer originally said he consulted the doctor about a venereal disease, this mention of Barbara Carroll was a slur indeed. Dwyer omitted her name from subsequent confessions, gave the murder motive as robbery. To friendly South Parisians, Barbara and her father, a respectable World War veteran and deacon, were characters almost as touching as Mrs. Jessie Dwyer, a simple nurse who had long struggled to keep her fatherless boy out of debt. But last...
...first Letters Department contained a protest from rich Reformer Roger Baldwin (then as now director of the American Civil Liberties Union), who advocated the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy; and an explanation from the Editors that by correcting a mistake Calvin Coolidge made about a baseball game, no slur was intended on the Chief Executive...
...reason for how it all came to pass. Nearest he could come was that two months ago he was "completely irritated with Hollywood" after seeing a number of pictures he did not like. It was then he drew the unfortunate sketches, and he said he thought he inserted the slur against Jews subconsciously. Further, Mr. Beaton explained ". . . Silly as it may sound, I had not been aware that I was writing words. ... I liked the sound of 'Kike' . . . but I had no idea that it was confined to a definite racial group, and I certainly had no conception...