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...Senator Guy Mark Gillette, chairman of the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, had found nothing "at this time" to justify an investigation of the "Nominate Willkie", telegrams which had flooded the Philadelphia convention. Senator Gillette, a Democrat but no New Dealer, declared he would not be party to a smear campaign. His committee agreed with...
...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...
Reds. Working at cross-purposes until the Soviet-German Pact clarified the atmosphere, Communists and Nazis in Mexico now have a common aim: to smear the U. S., Great Britain and France. The aggressive Mexican Communist Party figures chiefly in its control of the all-powerful Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM), whose organ El Popular lambasted Hitler and Mussolini until the day of the Pact, now reviles Roosevelt and the imperialists intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling...
...pointed towards grey, New-Deal-hating Senator Walter Franklin George of Georgia and his 1938 campaign (when the New Deal failed to purge him out of the Senate). Next was heard a loud bang from Atlanta. Roared Mr. Arkwright (after consulting Mr. Willkie): ". . . The Administration is now trying to smear Senator George. . . . Another pet hate of the New Deal is the utilities. This is an effort to smear both-to kill two birds with one stone, thrown underhanded." Mr. Arkwright then went further, denied things that SEC had not publicly charged: that Uncle George had 1) contributed to Senator George...
Periodically there erupts in the U. S. A. a campaign to smear John Edgar Hoover. Among his ill-wishers are some newspapermen who believe Hoover is conceited, arrogant, publicity-hungry. They do not like him any better because Columnist Walter Winchell is continually claiming the inside track on crime stories. Last week, newshawks and other critics erupted again...