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William C. Hardee, assistant professor of Law, thought additional laws for outlawing communists would be unnecessary. "Oaths mean nothing to those who are real communists." He called the bill an "invidious slur on the members...
...Sykes point is on the preachy side -and his allegorical Mollie is a bit of a slur on America, not to mention American womanhood. But then, Sykes is really talking to intellectuals who have long found Mollie vulgar anyhow, and who, without the caricature, might reject the sermon out of hand...
...Dallas, a theater chain called off its plans to show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
They protested several purported errors of fact in last Friday's CRIMSON article on the Council. Perhaps they discerned a slur on the Council's achievement during Mr. Zurier's term; they specifically objected to the use of the word "purge" in connection with the results of last February's elections; and they asserted that the vote of confidence which Mr. Zurier received at that time was a fairer index of the Council's sentiment...
...resent your slur on the shipbuilders of New England: the presidential yacht Williamsburg "rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor . . ." [TIME, March...