Word: smear
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...Dewey? It seemed unlikely, but he went on gaining strength from all the Stop-Deweyites, and perhaps from the many citizens who have always been allergic to Tom Dewey and are now relishing the rising smear-Dewey campaign in the New Deal press. (Columnist Walter Winchell reported that odds on Bricker had dropped from 20-to-1 to 3-to-1.) His campaign, John Bricker said, would go on right up to convention time...
...warned its readers that Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...
...should permit the people of the country to draft you for President. . . . I am convinced you will carry every state in the Union. . . . Let your friends in this country nail to the cross the many vicious propaganda, underhanded moves which will be started to smear and destroy...
Said Senator Vandenberg: "I am one of the sinister 'backers.' . . . A smear article if ever I read one in my life...
...lowest artillery level, the New Deal's Senatorial smear specialist, Pennsylvania's Joe Guffey, leveled a bazooka at the literary naivete of Freshman Butler. Delightedly Joe Guffey read to the Senate from Butler's report: "Mexico is a land of beautiful mountains.. ."; of El Salvador, "this little country is picturesque"; of Colombia, "it is full of mountains"; of Chile, it is "long and narrow."Said Senator Guffey drily: "[These observations] show him to be a man of singular powers of observation...