Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most responsible for giving President Roosevelt the most important moral support he has yet received was John Foster Dulles-the man whom New Dealers (led by Senator Claude Pepper, Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson and PM) had worked hard to smear in the 1944 campaign. A conscientious international lawyer, grandson of a U.S. Secretary of State, Republican Dulles has devoted most of his life to international problems. For four years he has chairmanned the Federal Council's Commission on a Just and Durable Peace. His and the Council's great objective was largely achieved last week -to give...
...junior Senator, now the son-in-law of Washington's wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, had decided last spring not to seek a fourth term. Said Buncombe Bob: "I have often referred to myself as an isolationist. . . . I merely employed the term because those who attempted to smear us for trying to keep this country out of the war used that word. . . . We are winning this war. . . . Russia could not have won it. Great Britain could not have...
Aguirre Cámara comes of an old family in Córdoba Province. In both political and private life his record is so blameless that even the slugging nationalist press of Buenos Aires has not been able to smear him. His aged patrician mother still chooses his clothes. When he was Finance Minister of Córdoba, he gave her his paycheck every week, like a boy on his first...
...increasingly popular and profitable profession, suave, gossipy Columnist Andrew Russell (Drew) Pearson ("Washington Merry-Go-Round"), who is as adept at a smear as he is at a newsbeat, has earned some unique honors. He has been...
...Catholic Campaign" is a shoddy piece of smear. That issue treats the Church with TIME'S typical journalistic skulduggery regarding things Catholic. It would throw a sop to the gullible in the form of a picture of Pope Pius XII and Sister Mary Elaine. Do not palm the smear off on the pretense of freedom of the press. That item makes news only because it throws dung at the magnificent structure of the Church...