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Word: libeling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sims were found guilty, fined ?25 for enticement, ?250 for libel and nearly ?400 for costs. Back in Old Barton, Cookham Dean, newshawks found Edith the General putting the kettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Edith the General | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Stretch of The Twigs (now Applewood) a taunting telegram accusing him of financial instability. The telegram passed through the village store where it was read by most of the gossips in Cookham Dean. Against Mr. Sim, Mr. Stretch promptly brought two suits, one for "enticement," the other for personal libel. Then for a year the case hung fire and bewildered Edith the General continued to work for the Sims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Edith the General | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...This case has been called a trumpery one, but on the other hand ... it is a very vexatious thing to have a servant suddenly whisked off in the middle of her morning's work. ... In regard to the libel you may consider this the more serious matter of the two. You all know what village post offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Edith the General | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Most sensational Davey riposte was to swear out a warrant charging Harry Hopkins with criminal libel, which he followed up with a 700-word telegram to the Administrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Davey's Deficit | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Quivering with rage the Southern Press shouted "Libel!" But the 150-year-old Augusta Chronicle ("The South's Oldest Newspaper") restrained itself. Withholding epithets and stock denials, the Chronicle's Editor Thomas J. Hamilton promised to investigate the Caldwell charges, to report accurately, fearlessly. With the author's father, Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell of nearby Wrens, Ga. as guide, two Chronicle newshawks scoured the bleak "sand hill" section between Wrens and Keysville-setting for Tobacco Road. True to promise, the Chronicle front-paged their findings in five straightforward reports which, in any Northern publication, might well have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Along Tobacco Road | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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