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...Korea. Rhee's strongly anti-Soviet stand had made him a natural propaganda target for the Cominform. Agitation against him had become strong in liberal and labor circles, particularly in France, Australia, Great Britain and India. In the U.S. he had been subjected to the same kind of smear campaign that had turned many an honest but unsuspecting man away from China's Chiang Kaishek. It was true that Syngman Rhee was arbitrary and that he sometimes ran roughshod over the civil rights of his opponents. But he was also...
...George Papanicolaou of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for achievements in cancer research-the "smear tests" (TIME...
Chairman Teague (D. Texas), has said that the committee does not intend to run a "smear campaign," but rather a thorough investigation which would concentrate on "alleged abuses" by schools and on possible "administrative abuses" by the Veterans Administration, which runs the program...
...Irresponsible." Oscar Chapman, fighting-mad, rumbled into a klieg-lighted meeting of the Senate's Interior and Insular Affairs Committee two days later and confronted his accuser. "Senator Schoeppel's statement," said Chapman, ". . . can be dismissed as malicious and irresponsible . . . another instance of the use of the smear technique which has become the stock in trade of little men in high places." Its purpose, he declared, was a "last-ditch attempt to block statehood for Alaska" by suggesting that "my motives in advocating [it] are sinister and evil...
...week, by winning a Democratic primary race for the Texas legislature, his son flicked the dust off the old name. At 29, Maury Jr., an ex-Marine officer, was verbally a mere ghost of his father; he even turned the other cheek when his oil-rich opponent tried to smear him red. Growled the elder Maverick: "Little Maury gives me a pain in the neck. He's such a damned little gentleman...