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Hydrophobia, He Says. The Journal broke its story four days before the state Supreme Court began its hearings on the electoral mess. Hummon squawked loudly: "The Journal has running hydrophobia." His weekly paper, the Statesman ("The People: Editor; Herman Talmadge: Associate Editor"), joined in: "Smear tactics ... to coerce and intimidate the Supreme Court." Hundreds of congratulatory letters poured in to the Journal (owned by the Democrats' 1920 presidential candidate, James M. Cox). The rival Constitution, which fought Gene Talmadge in the last election, was strangely noncommittal about the Journal's expose of Hummon. Editor Ralph McGill (whom capitol...
...never saw him again. Some months later she herself was ,in Kazakstan, living mostly on whey, wild roots and tea. Her job on a Soviet dairy farm was explained "in quite a friendly way" by the ouprav (overseer). She was to follow the cows around, gather their dung, smear it over the wickerwork of nearby sheds. In time the dung would dry and then presto, said the overseer, the sheds would be habitable. For this she was paid a few kopecks a week, allowed to receive an occasional parcel from home...
Richard E. Lauterbach, Life correspondent who is a Nieman Fellow here, viciously lashed out last night at the "Big Smear" which he sees engulfing America. Speaking before a meeting of the University Chapter of the American Veterans Committee, Lauterbach pointed to the Lillenthal controversy and added that the Presidential appointee is "eminently qualified--even Harvard's Professor William Yandell Elliott admits that...
Craignez honte-Fear disgrace-is the motto of Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck family. It does not mean "Fear accusations." Poland's Communists, abetted by their comrades in London, used the technique of the personal smear campaign against British Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who faced it coolly. Then Polish Government officials simply refused to see Cavendish-Bentinck. Last week, his usefulness in Warsaw ended, he announced that he had been transferred to another post. London sources said it was a better...
Andy blustered that it was a political smear, suffered a sudden heart attack and hurried off to his Prestonsburg, Ky., home. He was defeated for reelection...