Word: libeled
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Meanwhile in France where the Press normally enjoys a freedom approximating liberty to libel and tempered only by the readiness of its editors to shut up if offered adequate bribes, the Government leaned over backward in solicitude for the feelings of Adolf Hitler. The Sarraut Cabinet drew a storm of French abuse upon itself by ordering gendarmes to raid the offices of Paris' potent Le Journal and seize all copies of its Sunday feature-smash entitled ''Hitler's Secret Loves'" as well as the German research material upon which this was based...
...sooner had U. S. publishers congratulated themselves on the outcome of the Louisiana newspaper tax suit before the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. fortnight ago than there began in Washington, Pa. a criminal libel trial which most U. S. newspaper owners looked upon as another major threat to their liberties...
...taxes for a worth-while percentage of the receipts, he declared: "I am not, nor ever have been, a party either directly or indirectly to any such plan . . . nor does any such plan exist," demanded from the Inquirer a full retraction unless it wanted to be sued for criminal libel...
...under Pennsylvania law to inform the public in full about Mr. Margiotti's activities as lawyer and Attorney General, so long as the information was true, unless the jury believed that the publication was maliciously made. After more than 28 hours, the jury acquitted the Inquirer of criminal libel...
...newspaper which lost an extraordinary libel case last week was the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which by mistake had omitted "Ga." in the Savannah, Ga. date line on a crime story involving one Mrs. J. C. Johnson. Claiming that her friends who read the story thought she was the accused woman, a Mrs. J. C. Johnson of Savannah, Tenn. (pop. 1,129) sued for libel, last week was awarded...