Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall group began working for a special mayoralty election in the hope of throwing him out of office...
Mather said last night that he has not yet decided whether or not to institute a libel suit against the undergraduate paper...
...Made newspapers subject to libel suits in any county in the state where they had more than 100 subscribers (rather than in the county of publication), a trick to put them at the mercy of Talmadge-controlled rural justice...
...half-truths, lies and simple absurdities slithers out of USA's offices on Pushkin Street in Red-run East Berlin. Free and unrequested, these magazines go by mail to editors, union leaders and other influential men in Western Germany. The Iron Curtain protects the Red editors from libel and copyright suits...
...four California Congressmen, who said that Howser's reputation had been poor in 1948. Pearson's most telling evidence: a deposition from the witness who said he had carried the bribe from a gambler direct to Howser. The jury's unanimous verdict: Howser had not been libeled. Pearson was the winner in his ninth libel suit...