Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway systems, one State-owned and the other private, are to be merged and if so, whether under the state or private capital. None of these issues definitely crystallized in last week's general election, a depressing orgy of muckraking, boos, catcalls, rubber razzberries, fist fights, suits for libel and bombastic broadcasts...
Rambling Rounsevell Sirs: I enjoyed your interesting article captioned "N. R." (TIME, Sept. 30) and wish to commend you for your good judgment in featuring the man instead of the libel suit, which is nothing unusual for Nelson Rounsevell. I spent a year on the Panama American, 1931-32, and have the distinction of being one of the few persons to leave Rambling Rounsevell's service without being fired. "N. R." in my opinion is the most fearless and independent living publisher. He started the P. A. practically on a shoe-string and has overcome opposition that few publishers...
...favorite boast of fiery Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American is that, in the course of eight arrests for libel, he has been cleared every time, at a total expenditure...
Fortnight ago the self-styled "rambler and gambler" found himself again in court on a charge of criminal libel. The charge: that an epidemic of suicides at a nearby Army post had led him to compare that post's commander to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler. By direction of the court, Publisher Rounsevell was acquitted (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week Defendant Rounsevell went on trial again-this time for an editorial stating that the commanding general of the Canal Department was incompetent to investigate his subordinates. The prosecution demanded that an example be made to prevent "future sadistic libels...
...working his men mercilessly under the tropical sun, driving them to smoke marijuana cigarets which led to madness and to death. When an Army investigation resulted in a whitewash, the post commander and the commanding general of the Canal Department had Publisher Rounsevell indicted on five counts for criminal libel (TIME...