Word: smearing
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...system, promoted the idea that it is a governmental duty to support the people, advocated regimentation of industry, agriculture, labor, were equally subjects of inquiry along with Communists. Nobody confused this argument quite so badly as excitable, suspicious Martin Dies. To New Dealers this was just part of a "smear Roosevelt" campaign, dangerous in campaigns like the one in Michigan, where the Dies inquiry into sit-down strikes helped defeat Governor Murphy for reelection...
...your issue of Nov. 27, you aptly smear the atrocity "Reverend Jones" used in place of "the Reverend Mr. Jones" or "the Reverend Tom Jones...
...wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had to come up the hard way. . . . Pegler . . . goes back 18 years for dirt to smear me with, is running interference for his plutocratic friends in Hollywood who are attacking me because I am fighting for the little fellows in the picture studios...
Orville Poland, speaking on the Dies Committee, said that if the American Student Union is investigated the inquiry will most certainly reach Harvard. "The Dies Committee's real business is to smear the Roosevelt administration, and is acting as the stooge of the National Manufacturers Association and the Chambers of Commerce," he continued...
...There an Organized Effort to 'Smear' the Medical Profession...