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...have taken the time and trouble in the midst of the busy life of a medical practitioner to obtain some official figures which I hope will give the time-worn libel its quietus...
...begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...
...most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten: the other gang finally called a cop. The Daily Worker is now being sued for a total of $745,000 in damages for libel...
Fortnight ago, Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of Walter W. Liggett, Minneapolis editor who was shot and killed in December 1935, won a $25,000 verdict after an undefended libel suit against the Daily Worker, which had accused the murdered editor, no Trotskyite, of using his paper for blackmail. Last week, the New York Supreme Court granted the Daily Worker permission to enter a belated defense...
Most ominous libel suit of all was one filed last week against the Daily Worker, its editor, Clarence A. Hathaway, and Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, by Max Eastman, author (Enjoyment of Laughter) and lecturer, whose skillful translations of Trotsky's works have done much to keep Trotsky's ideas current in the English-speaking world. Author Eastman charged that the Daily Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against...