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...expose, Administrator Hopkins declared : "He gets all his stuff from Sam Jones, who's an expert at cooking up this sort of material. He used to work for the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution and he put on that big campaign down at the Talmadge convention to smear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Records on Relief | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...last week did the press smoke out of its files a two-year-old secret about Elliott Roosevelt's scheme to sell airplanes to Russia. Even then, Chairman Nye, one of the Senate's smartest hands at investigation publicity, loudly deplored the disclosure as "an attempt to smear the President" and as "not designed for any honest and constructive purpose." Nevertheless, the same public that had watched this North Dakotan "smear" the President's enemies now had a glimpse at the way a President's son may plan to make some quick money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Son's Scheme | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...those guys 250 bucks apicco every week just to get gags for my radio script", Jimmy said as he wiped a wandering smear of soap from the end of his proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut out the jokes. It's colossal, that's what it is, colossal!" Although the star of Cole Porter's latest show admitted he had read lots of these he had never seen a copy of the "Lampoon", but this was explained when he said that he only read the funny ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schnozzle Cuts Gags from College Cut Ups; Stage Star Shows He Knows All | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

...ready to subscribe to the New Deal 100% and sign your name on the dotted line you're a Tory, you're a prince of privilege, you're a reactionary, or you're an economic royalist. Now, my dear ladies, bear in mind that ... the smear department of the [Democratic] National Committee will be working overtime tonight to see if it isn't possible to tie you all up to the predatory interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sachem Speaks | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...embouchure (placing of the lips on the mouthpiece) as good as his father had claimed it to be. As they moved on through music stores in Syracuse and Rochester, Mr. von Schilling reminded interviewers that his son also plays the trumpet and trombone, proudly declared: "Stanwurt just loves to smear those runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baby Beeper | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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