Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...industry's plea that it be regulated solely by the States was the Insurance Executive Association's president and chief spokesman, Edward L. Williams. Lawyer Williams, whose 25 years of Manhattan practice have not dented his Carolina drawl, was all set to sound off about ''smear campaigns" and "lies."* But shrewd Joe O'Mahoney snapped him off when he had no more than shouted "They is none" in answer to a query about the slush fund. The Senator was more interested in other facts. Some of the facts he was after...