Word: libeler
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...head. In one of the neatest speeches of the year, Miss Ball yells her red head off about being the goat of it all, and Wynn comes to the rescue, thus balancing off the foursome. The economic motive is present, too, in the form of a two million dollar libel suit which starts the whole thing going and disappears just in time for the happy ending...
...switch at Carbide & Carbon was a minor triumph for the C.I.O. As a last-minute campaign tactic it had accused the A.F.L. of scheming to put Oak Ridge workers into the corrupt and autocratic Hod Carriers Union. An A.F.L. suit for criminal libel was too late to stop the damage. Summed up Southern A.F.L. Representative George Googe: "Chaos for another year...
Fellow Congressmen raged. Abashed for once in his life, Barreto Pinto took refuge in a libel suit, charged that Photographer Manzon had used montage tricks, had promised to snap him only from the waist up. As Barreto Pinto's own Labor Party prepared to expel him if he lost his case, he beat them to the punch by resigning...
...reckless British reviewer once observed in print that the Sitwells were "literary curiosities . . . whose energy and self-assurance pushed them into a position which their merits could not have won. . . . Oblivion has claimed them and they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." The Sitwells promptly sued for libel, were awarded damages of ?350 each (TIME, March...
...Washington, Representative O'Toole announced that he has instructed his lawyers in New York to bring a $100,000 criminal libel suit against Jacobs for "accusing me of extortion...