Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to get around to it, explained Budenz, though he conceded that he had been supplying names to the FBI for five years. He had even taken Lattimore's name out of a recent piece for Collier's because "all concealed Communists can sue anyone for libel, not for the purpose of winning, but to bleed white anyone who accuses them...
...offensive. Appearing at a meeting of the Marine Corps League in New Jersey to get the league's award for Americanism, ex-Marine McCarthy boldly announced that he was prepared to repeat his charges in public, as Lattimore had demanded, and dared anyone to sue him for libel. But what he produced was a far cry from his original talk of Communism and espionage; it was simply a weasel-worded statement that Owen Lattimore, Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup and the State Department's John Service sometimes agreed with policies that paralleled the Kremlin line...
...polemicist grew steadily. The militant gospel of class warfare that Laski preached during the 1945 campaign had put the fear of revolution in many a Briton's heart. The Nottinghamshire Newark Advertiser accused him of having advocated violence to impose Socialism on Britain. Laski sued the paper for libel, but the court was not convinced. Laski had to pay all the court costs of $52,000, including a thumping fee to the paper's lawyer, wealthy Sir Patrick Hastings...
...week's end, War Minister Strachey seemed content to rest on his own and Downing Street's denials. But Lord Kemsley, an innocent bystander in the whole Strachey business, sued the Tribune for libel in calling the Standard's actions "lower than Kemsley...
Last week Reporter Ratliff turned up in Washington for a secret session with the House Un-American Activities Committee. He planned to have his tipster put the names of the 178 alleged Cincinnati Reds into the official record so that the Enquirer might print them without fear of libel suits. But the Scripps-Howard Cincinnati Post spread an expose of its own on Page One: the Enquirer's tipster was one Cecil Scott, and he had been an inmate of a Cincinnati mental institution at intervals between 1927 and 1932. The red-faced House committee ruled that Scott...