Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Committee's smear of scientists is just an episode," Professor Victor K. Weisskopf of M.I.T. told the Student's Association of the Natural and Social Sciences last night in Winthrop House...
Secondly, Mr. Bracken told us how we should be glad to have a Thomas committee which "protects our civil liberties." I assume he was speaking of the recent smear of Karl T. Compton before they presented any valid evidence, and then denied him the opportunity to appear in his own defense. I think that well-informed Mr. Bracken would call that "100% Americanism in action." Stewart D. Kranz...
Bart J. Bok, Associate Director of the College Observatory, claimed in a speech to students of Renasclacy Polytechnic. Institute that Condon was the victim of "smear technique" and that the present action of the committee was a threat to civil liberties...
...unable to decide which one among them shall serve as the chief executive. The filibuster has seen the Council Chamber criss-crossed by vicious political tracers, it has turned simple ambition into bitter perversity, and has delayed vital legislation. Resulting from a hopelessly disorganized political system and a calculated smear campaign by a few professional politicians, the lengthy stalemate can only give the Councilmen enough rope to hang themselves and possibly the city along with them...
...Taft and his hosts out to be a bunch of hypocrites. [But] Senator Taft was on a political speaking tour. . . . Meals . . . had been prepared far in advance . . . and it was not for him to dictate to his hosts what [to serve]. . . . It's an ancient trick to smear a man by the use of such backhanded tricks. . . . It's a point which readers who are going to follow the fortunes of their candidates in all newspapers might do well to bear in mind...