Word: smear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest leaders he does smear, democracy to hurt...
...surprises me that Mr. Fisher et al., should be so eager to re-enter the field of the personal smear, a field at which they were once so much at home. Mr. Fisher, it will be remembered, submitted a 300-page secret report on Communism in the NSA to the Committee on un-American Activities. Mr. Fisher's report was termed "100% wrong," "misleading," and "scurrilous" by the officers of his own organization. Subsequently he was expelled from both the Student Council...
...Curley Smear...
...recent election campaign, Rapaport's Law School Forum activities provoked a direct smear. In a pre-election speech, James Michael Curley attacked Rapaport for having invited Norman Thomas to speak on a panel in 1947. He flung mud at the NBC director, claiming that, as president of the Law School Forum, he had tried to bring to Boston "a subversive, a communist element in our society...
...attack, a man calling himself "a reporter looking for a story about the Law School Forum," presented himself at the office in Hastings Hall. He began to rummage through the files, and unearthed some correspondence concerning Norman Thomas' appearance in Cambridge. This was later used as material for a smear campaign against...