Word: libeler
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...puffing cigarets in a long ivory holder. Few blocks away in Room 620 of the Willard Hotel sat Columnist Drew Pearson (Washington Merry-Go-Round) and his lawyer. In Room 415 was General MacArthur's lawyer. Thus was the stage set for settlement of the $1,750,000 libel suit filed by the General last summer against Columnists Pearson & Robert S. Allen for picturing him as a swaggering, supersensitive strutter who pulled social and political wires to advance himself in the service (TIME, May 28). Co-defendants were United Feature Syndicate which distributed the Merry-Go-Round, and Hearst...
...have been told that the book includes certain definitely described attacks on me which, if made, would be untrue, maliciously libelous and designed wholly for the purpose of doing me harm. . . . Many of the charges which General Johnson has loosely made in private conversation regarding me and my activities can be completely disproved. . . . I simply desire to notify you that if you take the responsibility for publishing the statements by General Johnson . . . you must accept the full legal responsibility for taking such action without any adequate effort to assure yourself of the truth of the libel...
Newshawks found General Johnson visiting his mother in Okmulgee, Okla. Snorted he: "Donald is a high official. If he thinks there is libel in this narration, why doesn't he stand on his legal rights in a suit for libel and not attempt to use his position to threaten the freedom of the Press...
Investor Clark, in Paris, freely admitted trying to get General Butler to use his influence with the Legion against dollar devaluation, but stoutly declared: "I am neither a Fascist nor a Communist, but an American." He threatened a libel suit "unless the whole affair is relegated to the funny sheets by Sunday...
...Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins the school by spreading the tale. The accused young women ruin themselves by pressing an unsuccessful libel suit. Alone in a deserted classroom, Karen Wright (Katherine Emery) and Martha Dobie (Anne Revere) are faced with a hopeless future. In her morbidity, Martha reveals that although Karen is innocent, she, Martha, has not been entirely guiltless in intent. She goes to her room. There is a gunshot...