Word: smears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop Willkie. The men who would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...Hill" smear campaign. But the other candidates were too busy smearing each other; and Hearst papers, while supporting Rossi, kept their gloves...
...slow heart that beats 55 instead of the normal 75 times a minute. This kept him out of World War I when he tried to enlist-until his pastor had him ordained so that he could take a chaplain's commission. Political opponents have tried without success to smear him as a draft dodger. Otherwise the slow heart bothers no one but doctors feeling the Bricker pulse for the first time...
...Illinois, U.S. Congressman (1906-11), longtime Republican leader; in Tucson. Born in a log cabin, a blacksmith's son, a lifetime farmer, he was heavy Presidential timber after his economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered...