Word: smearing
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...took up the cudgels for Senator Walsh. Missouri's Bennett Clark demanded an immediate Senate investigation of "the old hussy who runs the New York Post" (38-year-old Dorothy Schiff Backer). Senators Wheeler and Nye denounced the Post's exposé as a "diabolical attempt" to smear all isolationists. Senator Nye said he knew for a fact that "a secret society" had been operating for two years to gather smear material...
...whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...
Fortnight ago she published a box quoting allegedly derogatory remarks (but omitting numerous praises of MacArthur) which have appeared in Merry-Go-Round in recent years, accusing Pearson & Allen of "false and sneering innuendo ... to smear the reputation of a great man. . . ." The Merry-Go-Round will probably soon appear in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post...
This belief seems to have been confirmed by a more recent article, a lying smear of organized labor. These are the most recent and the most striking examples of the Satevepost's irresponsible, ultra-reactionary editorial policy. They clinch our belief that the Post, beneath its mask of patriotism, is doing its bit for Hitler...
...that a war manufacturer has to go through to get separate priorities for dozens of separate materials and purposes. On huge, bright pink Purp blanks, a manufacturer can list all his material needs for all purposes for the coming quarter, get priorities clearance on the whole smear at once. If his needs change during the quarter, he can fill out similar yellow blanks for "interim assistance." Small firms (gross business under $100,000 a year) can use a simplified form...