Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crux. Absorbed in such social projects, the Government had a narrow escape in the press-law controversy. Though the new bill was only mildly restrictive (nothing like the law it replaced), reactionary papers like El Comercio and La Prensa and the pipsqueak smear-sheets that Latins call pasquines rebelled most at the requirement that they publish a statement of ownership, stirred up the fuss that ended in the Plaza scuffle...
...strike wore away, feelings grew more bitter. The C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers set up an outdoor soup kitchen in Detroit to keep its pickets warm. In Saginaw, someone threw bricks through the windows of a company officer's house; the union called it an attempt to smear the union...
...headlines and news accounts and signed columns, different bits of testimony were played up, tailored to fit old prejudices. In Marshall Field's leftist PM, the whole inquiry was treated as a mere smear-as if no one cared to know what had happened at Pearl Harbor. To people who read John O'Donnell's poison penmanship in the Roosevelt-hating New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald, it was a war criminal trial, with Franklin Roosevelt, the culprit, tried and convicted daily. Sample O'Donnell: "One becomes appalled and frightened...
...mayor found 206-pound Dick Frankensteen a target hard to miss. He charged that U.A.W.'s man was suppported by Communists and rabble-rousers, would run the city for a little group of labor chieftains. Smear pamphlets appeared on Detroit's streets. Hecklers asked Frankensteen embarrassing questions about housing for Negroes, his plans for non-union city employes...
...pompadoured black hair, a police station hanger-on, petty racketeer and blackmailer, who once did a two-year penitentiary stretch for a $25 shakedown of a whoremistress. His Public Press was a newspaper only by the utmost professional courtesy: it came out intermittently, whenever Kasherman could find someone to smear and someone to pay him for it; it was full of black-inked diatribes against the cops, the mayor and the gangsters, and promises of a detailed "lowdown" which would come in the next issue but never did. In his cheap rooming house, police found almost an entire...