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TIME (Nov. 7) reports the offer of the Madison (Wis.) Capital-Times to donate $1000 to charity if Chicago Tribuneman Chesly Manly can prove the truth of his story that the La Follette (Civil Liberties) inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, and used to smear and intimidate employers opposed...
...immediately pay $1,000 to any charity the Tribune might name. The statement in question: "La Follette's so-called [Civil Liberties Committee] inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, dictator of the C. I. O. and political ally of Mr. Roosevelt, and used to intimidate, harass and smear employers opposed by the C. I. O." Chicago is 144 miles from Madison. At week's end the Tribune and its publisher. Robert R. ("Freedom of the Press") McCormick. had given no sign of hearing or accepting the challenge...
SCENE TWO. All right, young man, we're quite capable of finding our way around this stadium alone. We played here before you were born. Those were the good old days. Back in the days of Horween and Haughton, ch, Ed? We used to smear them all, then. Why, if we had ever dropped three games in a row they'd have run us out of the Gold Coast. But no wonder with guys like us, Ed--we were men. We went through teams, not around and over them. Look at the kids here now. Don't they look young...
...Obscenity, with which Nazis smear Jews and priests, is part of the curriculum. "The Stunner, which writes almost exclusively about sexual outrages, bedroom gossip and scandal, is read in the schools to children between 6 and 14." Copies hang on classroom walls. Result: "Pupils have become possessed by pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they...
...Negroes by law, the majority of the 30% who vote went Democratic in 1936, shepherded by their late boss, black Saloonkeeper Tom Smith, who was a great & good political friend of Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. As Democrats they were freely invited to enter this week's primary to smear Senator Tydings. Because the Senator still had an inner track with Boss Smith's heirs, he was one purgee who did not protest...