Word: smears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furious Communists had no intention of leaving him or any of their former allies in peace. Old hands at character assassination and the literary smear ("General Krivitsky, you are Schmelka Ginsburg!"), they vilified the deserters in cartoons and articles. But with its first-string literati gone, the New Masses was reduced to printing shrill invective by Ruth McKenney (My Sister Eileen}, low growls by professional Communist Growler Mike Gold (Jews Without Money), venomous cartoons by William Gropper...
University Hall's recent memorandum on the distribution of printed material in the College buildings is a logical development. This past year has seen in dormitory entryways too many smear posters designed to stir up racial prejudice, too much furtive distribution of literary blasts and counter-blasts in the small hours of the morning. For purely practical purposes, then, the Dean's office and the Student Council Committee have done well in attempting to clean house...
Eliot Snider '41, Chairman of Interhouse Debating at Dunster says that the team composed of Funsters N. N. Griffith '42, and W.F. Rogers, Jr. '43, will smear Eliot House Tuesday, and prove that the United States should not send food for European countries...
Hague: "You're not going to smear me. . . . Why don't you go to Philadelphia and investigate how Willkie got the nomination? Why do you come here with your 10? picayune investigation?" (Aside to his followers): "Look at him. I probably will get just as low as he will in a couple of minutes. I understand what this is. They're trying to defeat President Roosevelt in this State. They're trying to smear him. But they're going to beat him honestly...
...more interest was a companion piece, which also emanated from Colored Division headquarters, an eleven-page printed pamphlet bearing the title "Let's Follow Thru," with halftone cuts of Roosevelt and Willkie, the record of the New Deal, and an anti-Willkie blast which drew heavily on the "smear" statements in the mimeographed pages. The pamphlet, a slick job with a neat layout, had obviously been prepared by a master chef. One day last week the whole mess was given an airing in New York newspapers...