Word: libeler
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...Baltimore, District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen ruled that when the Washington Times Herald quoted from defeated congressional candidate Mark Hammett's political pamphlet the passage reading, "My general erudition, social punctilio and physical pulchritude are of the highest order," the paper did not libel Hammett in commenting: "Anybody want to go with him steady...
...group will also file a libel suit against the News early next week, which charges that the News "did falsely and maliciously state that only students of inferior status, initiative or character desired to receive copies of the said newspaper on Saturdays in New Haven...
...suits ask "standard damages" of one million dollars for the libel suits, and demands that the News refund one-sixth the subscription price to all subscribers and cease calling itself the "Oldest College Daily...
...traditional Eastertide Strike of students at the University of San Carlos, one of the most merciless lampoons anywhere. Starting weeks ahead, the students shamelessly shake down politicos and merchants for expenses, adding to the fund receipts from a scurrilous vaudeville show and a scandal sheet that flouts all libel laws. With the $25,000 to $30,000 they collect, the students build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits and tableaux they spend weeks devising. A week before Good Friday, while the capital watches goggle-eyed, the students belt down quantities...
...Beard teachers and employees who had protested Beard's firing by refusing to show up for work. Beard, who insists that he was fired because some of his teachers sided against Governor Shivers in the last gubernatorial primary, still has a $300.000 suit against the board for libel and slander...