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Word: libeling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plot Without Plotters | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Headlong Week | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cocoa & Machine Guns | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Jewish world-conspiracy is the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Always purporting to be fact, this ingenious work has been circulated in 15 languages. Last year Swiss Jews caught Swiss Nazis distributing copies of it. Eager to scotch the old charge publicly, the Jews brought a libel suit which became a criminal action when it appeared that the Nazis had violated a Swiss law against circulating literature "calculated to excite vile instincts or to cause brutal offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protocols of Zion | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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