Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McDonough, an 18-year veteran, found that a Democratic voting advantage of some 47,000 in his new downtown Los Angeles district was too much to overcome: he lost by nearly 17,000 votes to Los Angeles Councilman Edward Royhal, a liberal who plugged medicare. In a swirl of libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald...
...political wisdom of the Congressional investigation of Hiss. This may sound like heresy to Mr. Von Salzen, but consider: assuming Hiss's guilt (and some reasonably intelligent people have their doubts about this), was it really in the best interests of this country to investigate him, provoking the libel and perjury suits? A government doesn't have to investigate or prosecute men who have committed sets against it which circumstances have proved were of little significance. In the years between Hiss's actions and the investigations, this country fought a major "hot" war, and began a cold war of similar...
Dilworth graduated with honors from Yale Law School, then built a highly successful practice as a Philadelphia trial lawyer. He specialized in libel law-and it is one of his great political assets that he knows precisely how far he can legally go in his assaults on his opponents. A Marine hero again in World War II, Dilworth returned to Philadelphia to lash out at the Republican corruption that had gripped the city for 63 years. From street corners he shouted the names of madams, gamblers, crooks-and the names of the cops and officials who protected them...
William Oscar Saunders was in the old tradition: a personal journalist, a high-horsed crusader, a one-man crowd. For 30 years, as editor-publisher of a rural North Carolina weekly, he unremittingly fought graft, corruption, red-neck segregationists, pharisees of all kinds-and some 60 libel suits. Last week, in a book entitled The Independent Man, Saunders' only son, Keith, 52, now an aviation writer in Washington, recalls the turbulent career of one of the last of an all but vanished American journalistic breed. The Elizabeth City Independent, which Saunders launched in 1908 on a borrowed...
Retracting a Libel. Saunders reserved his most withering fire for more vulnerable targets: corrupt politicians, indolence in public office, the outmoded mores and traditions of the Old South. "E. F. Aydlett." read one two-line item about an Elizabeth City attorney who controlled the town, "was seen in the courthouse one day last week with his hands in his own pockets." Aydlett tried to bribe Saunders into silence, with no more effect than those who resorted to threats, legal action and even violence. Walter L. Cohoon, editor of a competitive paper, twice thrashed Saunders on Main Street and also sued...