Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood boiled when Mr. Coolidge nasally warned: "Beware of the so-called 'twister' and 'abstractor' or any agent who offers to save money for you by replacing your policy in another company." Saying his reputation was injured, Agent Tebbetts filed a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Coolidge...
...monthly Hygeia (for everybody) began flaying Quack Baker. His receipts dropped until last January they were only $7,008. He lost the license for his broadcasting station KTNT. Iowa enjoined him from practicing medicine without a license. He sued the A. M. A. for $500,000 damages, charging libel...
...jury of Iowa farmers and merchants agreed that it was no libel to call Norman Baker a quack, gave the A. M. A. another memento mori to wave at other charlatans...
...Norsemen did not do it for love. By admiralty law salvagers are entitled to a sum fixed by an admiralty judge. Papers filed in a suit to collect such a sum are called by sea-lawyers a "libel" (Latin: libellus, a little book). To get their money the owners of the Norwold filed a libel attaching the Arminda and her cargo. Judge Cochran ruled last week that since the Arminda is officially a warship belonging to a nation friendly to the U. S., the Norsemen could not libel the ship herself. He suggested that they file separate papers against...
Ministers should make large and frequent use of the radio. They should feel free to say anything they like so long as they do not slander or libel. If they offend some hearers, stations are many and dials are easy to twiddle. But-"The radio, as administered by the present Federal Commission, is a class agency, a political agency, and an agency without any real freedom...