Word: smears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the weekend came the first clear encouragement to those who want him to fight, not chat: Willkie got mad. The smear by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee got his dander up. He smashed hard at the "high professions and low performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate...
...Smear of the week was a pamphlet issued by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...entire handling of this article strongly suggests that the writer is a wholehearted advocate of the "smear Willkie" idea. Since you are supposedly running a news magazine, you may be interested in the viewpoint that news consists of the presentation of facts and not the personal viewpoint of the writer...
...commanded the Army during those final disastrous weeks, or even Marshal Petain himself, who was Daladier's Ambassador to Spain, Reynaud's Vice Premier. There were indications last week that the trial, coinciding with the U. S. Presidential election, might also be used at Nazi insistence to smear Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Ambassador William C. Bullitt through "revelations" of sweeping promises...
...days, Free Press wires were jammed with angry phone calls. Meanwhile, readers discovered fresh evidence of a plot to smear the President when next day the Free Press printed a picture of Wendell Willkie pointing to his lip. Cried suspicious callers: "See? He's showing that he doesn't wear a Hitler mustache!" Next morning the Free Press printed both pictures, along with a little piece about the phone calls and the heat...