Word: smears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas stations and in his monthly magazine, The Defender, has made noises like a fascist : taken slaps at Jews and Catholics, gone hard after all Communists. Vowing that he is no fascist, he says: "Fascism is the illegitimate child of Communism. ... It is part of Communistic propaganda to smear every man opposed to Communism as a Fascist...
They were the Democratic National Committee's brilliant chief press agent, Charles Michelson, whose first feat was to smear Hoover, and his G. O. P. counterpart, Franklyn Thomas Waltman Jr. Dark, 35-year-old Republican Waltman paid elaborate tribute to the libertarian legacy of Democratic Patron Saint Thomas Jefferson, worked himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under...
Belgium's Fascist party, the Rexists, led by Léon Degrelle, frankly resorts to burglary and theft to obtain private papers with which to smear its opponents. Such tactics drove from office Premier Paul van Zeeland, although he later vindicated himself in the Belgian Parliament. By last week Rexists had turned their attention to Minister of Health Arthur Wauters...
...adventure of this sort, however, should be its effect on Harvard. The minute a college president takes sides in a political discussion, his impartiality on any subject he may subsequently take up, be it political, educational, or merely the weather, is bound to be called in question by political smear-artists whose job it is to throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery for the Republican Party, but his activities did not redound to the advantage...
...delicate task. He must explain before the bar of French public opinion the meaning of large quantities of small arms and munitions seized by the police recently in various parts of the Republic (TIME, Nov. 29), and he must not seem to be simply a Left politician attempting to smear the Right...