Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sullivan's answer was in character. In a column addressed from Hollywood to "My Secretary, Africa," he asked: "What was the reaction in N.Y. to the Pegler smear? Out here . . . the reaction was boredom. He's dangerously clever, though...
Unwanted Advice. Murray did not help his chances by his choice of a convention speaker. He invited Nathaniel R. Howard, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Cleveland's middle-roading News. Nat Howard criticized what he called the Guild's "smear tactics" in strikes. Said Howard: "Guild members have widely attacked the integrity and public intentions of the newspaper [in a strike] as a newspaper, and not as an employer. . . . A newspaper's good name with the public is something like a woman's reputation for chastity. You can foul...
From Sunset to Smear. Recently Maurice Sterne made the porch of his Provincetown cottage into a studio, and concentrated his attention on the sea out front. His new paintings were as salty and wet as the breakers, and they had the same compelling evanescence; each one seemed made of wind, water and light, ready to shatter and collapse in an instant...
Turning to the recent "purge" orders of the administration, the 61 year old scientist told the overflowing Garden audience that "the suppression of a Communist Party would merely be a preliminary for the suppression of other smear-able minorities. Would the Society of Jesus be next in line, or the Democrats in Vermont, or the Republicans in Mississippi?" he asked...
Hydrophobia, He Says. The Journal broke its story four days before the state Supreme Court began its hearings on the electoral mess. Hummon squawked loudly: "The Journal has running hydrophobia." His weekly paper, the Statesman ("The People: Editor; Herman Talmadge: Associate Editor"), joined in: "Smear tactics ... to coerce and intimidate the Supreme Court." Hundreds of congratulatory letters poured in to the Journal (owned by the Democrats' 1920 presidential candidate, James M. Cox). The rival Constitution, which fought Gene Talmadge in the last election, was strangely noncommittal about the Journal's expose of Hummon. Editor Ralph McGill (whom capitol...