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...Angeles' Biltmore Hotel was rife last week with the easy slur of Southern accents. In the haze from their cigars, big cottonmen from the South gleefully watched pretty models step in & out of cotton garments, parade cotton bathing suits, evening gowns and house dresses nimbly converted from cotton feed bags. The National Cotton Council, for the first time since it was formed in 1938, was holding its annual convention in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST: Good Gravy | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...purpose is to slur the persons of our membership, the column is unworthy of any notice. But if the calumny is intended to brand our organization with the stamp of reaction, perhaps the following comments are in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebuffs Cuff | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...Wobblies served notice that they would picket the building until the New Republic retracted this slur on their hero. Said New Republic Editor Michael Straight: "I am both pleased and surprised that the I.W.W. was able to muster up the manpower to picket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Wobblies March Again | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...resent your slur on two of my patriotic colleagues and I shall be very vocal about that resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...South has been proud of George Washington Carver for a long time. TIME'S inference to the contrary ... is a vicious, damyankee slur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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