Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin Pew. At 56, with a thoroughgoing newshawk's career behind him, Marlen Pew speaks of his experience as "the most wonderful, glamorous, satisfying adventure that any man could desire." He helped organize the United Press, edited the Philadelphia News-Post and proudly went to jail for criminal libel because of a political exposé. His last newspaper position was as general manager of Hearst's International News Service...
...Such works, and those of Faulkner and T. S. Stribling, while they may not be libel, betray a morbid mental state on the part of the authors: The South has no monopoly of insanity, race conflict, incest...
This message was probably lost upon the listeners of the class of '97, who were more interested in the scathing libel which preceded it. Today the appeal his a cruel significance. The Fence-bond has not survived the forty years since this appeal was made...
...founded another. When that went bankrupt, he started a third. His Jamaica newspaper, The Blackman, and his Edelweiss* Amusement Corp. (vaudeville, cinemas and an amusement park) did better, until last year when they, too, went broke, but not before Marcus Garvey had been jailed again for seditious libel in The Blackman. When he grew tired of the small arena of Jamaica politics and planned to go back to the U. S., Harlem Negroes hastily dug up more evidence of fraud and gave it to the police. From Jamaica he tried to run a lottery among U. S. Negroes...
...supreme courts. When Depression hit Medford, Editor Banks found himself in hot water. The delusions of grandeur gave way to delusions of persecution. Suits for foreclosures, taxes, wages, payments of all sorts piled up until he faced bankruptcy. He even lost the News to its former owner by foreclosure. Libel suits aggregating $300,000 he staved off by charging judges with prejudice. Then Editor Banks organized a "Good Government Congress" of 5,000 or 6,000 followers, dedicated to ousting practically all State and county officials, dissolving the Bar Association, defying the courts. The "Congress" incited a boycott against...