Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Columnist Drew Pearson kept clear his astonishing record of never losing a libel suit. But for a few days in a Washington court, it was touch & go whether he would. On trial was the suit of California's ex-Attorney General Frederick Napoleon Howser. He wanted $350,000 damages for Pearson's broadcast in 1948 that Howser had accepted $1,200 to protect gamblers...
...time, several California newspapers had also heard about the bribe story from the source, a man of none-too-savory reputation who was also a onetime Howser campaign worker. But they had not dared print it for fear of libel...
...were witnesses in a libel suit brought by French Author David Rousset against the French Communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises. Heavy, one-eyed David Rousset, 38, an ex-inmate of Hitler's Buchenwald, had proposed a year ago that an international commission investigate all the concentration camps in the world. Les Lettres retorted that Russia had only "correctional stockades," that Rousset faked his evidence. Rousset sued for damages. El Campesino and the others came to testify to the reality of Soviet slave labor...
Last week, with help from the Tribune, the committee put on the record some facts that the Tribune had long wanted to print but dared not, because of the danger of a libel suit. One witness testified that Sheriff Hugh Culbreath of Hillsborough County (which includes Tampa) had received campaign contributions from one of the city's most notorious underworld hoodlums. In its coverage of the hearings (30 columns the first day), the Tribune pulled no punches, despite the fact that Sheriff Culbreath's son had been married to the daughter of Tribune Publisher J. C. Council only...
...private brawl. But last week, after Adam Hats had announced that it was not renewing its contract as Pearson's radio sponsor, newsmen from all over the nation jumped in. The big gun on McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through the skylight as a service...