Word: libeler
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...from England came the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, as the proletariat chanted, "Fascists are Assassins!" With tears streaming down his cheeks, Premier Blum promised to rush onto French statute books a law modeled on the British law of libel, strictest in the world. "Roger Salengro would not have asked any other vengeance!" explained M. Blum, who seemed to think that unless he took such "vengeance" upon French newspaper proprietors the mob might rend them limb from limb. At latest reports the entire metallurgical industry of Lille was paralyzed by a stayin strike vaguely...
...Heats, Feuds, and Animosities" of their day, but becomes most absorbing in its account of the activities of the journalists who fought back and forth during Walpole's last fifteen years in office. No period can rival that one for the violence of its satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised...
...occasionally mention this plague in their dispatches, they report that local editors generally blue-pencil it. Symbolic of the Press's hesitancy to take up the Parran crusade in full is the fact that in most states a person described in print as syphilitic can successfully sue for libel...
Fiction WARD EIGHT-Joseph F. Dinneen- Harper ($2.) Story of the rise, reign and death of an Irish political boss in Boston, written in a jerky, staccato style. The author is a Boston newspaperman who is now being threatened with suit for libel by Massachusetts' Governor James M. Curley...
...Novelist Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Gone With the Wind, Harry Slattery, South Carolina-born personal assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, was outraged to read of an offensive poor white named Tom Slattery, considered suing for libel. Promptly Novelist Mitchell announced she had named her Georgia farmer Slattery "purely by chance, intending no malice," sent Mr. Slattery an autographed copy of her book. Said he, appeased: "A charming, amusing, vivid young woman...