Word: smearing
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Later he shouted: "I am not here to red-bait. I'm not here to witch-hunt. I'm not here to smear innocent persons." Who, then, was he there to smear? Dorgan was evasive. M.I.T.'s Dirk Struik? "Struik, they asked him if he was a Commie and he said, 'Of course not, but I'm a good Markist' (sic). And you all know what Karl Marx was. That's like saying, 'I'm not a thief but I'm a good pickpocket...
...effect on the great outside world. Newspaper readers in general, and Boston ones in particular, may be getting tired of exposes of Harvard as a Communist cell. This particular campaign has been too successful; readers have come to accept the fact, and frequent rehashing serves only to gild the smear...
...Chamber of Deputies, by an overwhelming vote, rejected the Deputies' resignation. The Red vilification apparatus clawed at the heretics: They were "traitors . . . automatically expelled." They were trying to smear "the patriotic and peace-defending line of the Communist Party in order to slander the Soviet Union." Party goons threatened Magnani and Cucchi on a train from Rome. Anti-Communist groups gleefully plastered up slogans: "Magnani and Cucchi Chose Italy...
...which he submitted himself . . Chambers could have remained silent. In silence he could have protected the $30,000-a-year position he held ... his wife and two lovely children, who forever must bear the scars of that dreadful experience. And silence would have protected him from the devilishly clever smear campaign launched against him by Communists and their dupes in this country...
...Detroit hearings, before they are finished, may bring out Richards' answers to these charges; so far his attorney has claimed that the whole business is a smear attempt. Meanwhile, Richards has rallied to his side a large number of organizations, such as the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. These groups have have praised the community services of his three stations highly, but Clyde A. Lewis, head of the V.F.W., did say Richards "at times is given to indiscreet personal remarks...