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Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...
...name them off the Senate floor, where he would not have congressional immunity? Sure he would, he told a group of Washington newspapermen, if they would guarantee in advance to print the list-not part of it, but every word of it. "I assume that 20 would sue for libel," Joe said jauntily. "You could win of course, but the costs might first be a couple of $100,000s. I'd be sued too, but I'm willing to take the chance." The newsmen declined. Then Joe, as he has before, read his list from the sanctuary...
...back street' type of campaign" which helped elect Baltimore Republican John Marshall Butler, unhorsed Maryland's Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. There wasn't enough legal evidence to warrant kicking Butler out of the Senate, said the committee, but in the future such "defamation, slander and libel" by a candidate's agents should be made reason enough. Joe McCarthy had been "actively interested" in the Butler campaign and the subcommittee thought a "sitting Senator" involved in another's campaign shenanigans should be made just as liable. The subcommittee's report was unanimous, signed not only...
Drew Pearson, 53, has the largest circulation (over 600 papers) of any Washington columnist, thanks partly to his reputation for risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
...major lit out for Paris or the U.S. The editor of New York's Evening Mirror sized him up at first glance in 1849: "We turned from him with the natural disgust we feel for humbugs in general, and literary humbugs in particular." When the major sued for libel and lost, he went back to London, but in 1861 he popped up again in St. Louis in the uniform of a major in the Federal army. Though Major Byron does not show up in War Department records, he was remembered by St. Louis citizens of the time as "modest...