Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contemporaries sometimes accused Boone of being a misanthrope who liked Indians better than white men. Biographer Bakeless agrees with Boone that this was a libel. But if Boone got a reputation for claustrophobia it was his own fault; he himself made up most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where...
...Mayor John Lynch, victorious over the incumbent in a libel suit but loser in the 1937 election, has also thrown down the glove. Another important candidate may be ex-Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, who could probably repeat his previous reform and economy victory
Hambleden was shocked by what he read about Countess Edda Ciano in TIME, but at first no reason was given for the ban. Questioned by the daily press, which saw something dangerously approaching censorship, the wholesalers attributed the ban to their fear of libel suits. In the 15 years it has been circulated in Great Britain TIME has never been sued for libel. Though startled by the ban in a country which boasts of its free press, TIME planned no action, left the business of Britain's press censorship up to Britain's press itself...
...Hoover indignantly yelped at this "vicious personal slander and libel in which there is not the remotest possible truth," demanded an apology in the next Round Table broadcast. In Washington, Columnist Pearson stuck by his pea-shooters, remarked: "No intelligent person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work...
...grinds out all the final copy for The Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn has yet to be brought to court...