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...referring to him as a sponsor of the pinko American League for Peace & Democracy, David B. Vaughan, a divisional chief of the BEW, sued Congressman Martin Dies for $75,000 libel damages. The only organizations he belongs to, protested Vaughan, are the Society for Advancement of Management, the Society for Personnel Administration and the Methodist Church...
Declaring that he felt he was safer outside the jail than in, James, who was arrested on a charge of libel of President Roosevelt, remarked "I told the official that I am sane, and would fight any commitment to the last ditch...
...plea to have President Roosevelt as a witness apparently disregarded, Edward Holton James '96, leader of the fascistic, anti-Catholic "Yankee-American Action," which met weekly in PBH two years ago, goes on trial today in Middle-sex Superior Criminal Court, accused of criminal libel against the President...
...circulation up as high as 140,000 and pay the heavy upkeep on Editor Enrique P. Osés, whose salary was $1,500 a month, plus fat expenses covering such items as an eight-man bodyguard. Additional expenses were incurred through Pampero's 58 suits for libel, calumny, contempt, slander, vilification, defamation, extortion, and once for repairs to Pampero's offices after a fed-up crowd had wrecked them...
Defending himself, James attempted futilely to have the charge dismissed a he had "no malice against President Roosevelt" and had not intended libel in the pamphlet calling the administration "the bloodstained assassins of our soldiers and sailors...