Word: libeler
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...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...
...Perhaps little heed will be given any defense of the animal," say Pigs' authors with a touch of bitterness, "and people will continue to libel him to the end of his days. But when that end comes, what a turn-about-face! When pig becomes pork, what eulogies, what panegyrics...
...papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed it. Miffed, Billy notified the Trib that he would not renew his contract next May. The Trib dropped him on the spot. But Billy had the last word: the New York Daily News (circ. 2,287,337) snapped...