Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crapouillot now appears bimonthly, has an average circulation of 50,000 which occasionally spurts to 100,000. Tall, handsome, 47, author of four novels, Editor Galtier-Boissière is famed as a gourmet and as the best-dressed of French literati. His immunity from libel suits makes knowing Frenchmen nod, credit his exposures with deadly accuracy...
...beginning of his fall, might question its authenticity only because the story of its discovery seemed too pat to be believed. After Napoleon's fall Caulaincourt lived in retirement, was stung to reply when rivals published memoirs that discredited him. His family withheld his exposures, fearing libel, until 1914. During the German invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt Chateau, lost when the chateau was blown up, found in 1933 when a garbled copy of the original was already going to press. Readers whose suspicions are awakened by such remarkable coincidences may be made more doubtful...
...review of five regiments at Fort Clayton, recently branded a "suicide post" by rambunctious Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American (TIME, Sept. 30). Following the review, the President pointedly wirelessed Major General Harold B. Fiske, commander of the Panama Canal Department who had sued Publisher Rounsevell for criminal libel and won: "Will you publish to your command my recognition and appreciation of the fine soldierly bearing and appearance of the troops at Fort Clayton...
...answer and solution is obvious. The libel laws must be made more stringent. The prosecuting attorneys must be made liable to them. Newspapers must not be excused from them by the formality of an adjective. Idealism must be abolished...