Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories in type far better than he could write them. But to Governor Cosby the facts of corruption and tyranny revealed were as awkward as Zenger's syntax. He had several numbers of the Journal publicly burned, threw John Peter Zenger into jail on a charge of seditious libel...
Because professional sport lives on publicity, sporting personages rarely incur the enmity of the Press with libel suits. This may have aided more than one sports writer like the late Ring Lardner, Joe Williams, William McGeehan and Paul Gallico (who will replace Pegler on the Chicago Tribune Syndicate) to perfect sarcastic styles. It is unlikely that a wider field will decrease Pegler's eloquence or his impatience. He plans to-call his new column "Sweetness and Light...
...article in the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly by Noobar R. Danielian, instructor in Economics, is the cause of two $100,000 libel suits brought by the Associated Gas and Electric Company against the Atlantic Monthly Company and the Atlantic Monthly Press. Dr. Danielian's article was entitled "Gas: A Study in Expansion. The Case of Associated Gas.", and presented facts "relative to the industrial feudalism" of the Associated Gas and Electric Company. Since the article was printed, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency recently added the Associated Gas and Electric to the list of companies which...
...racket, it is headed "J.P. Morgan and Co Points Way for Capone's Release," and is signed merely "Subscribe to the American Progress." So diplomacy may succeed where the gentle art of self-defense failed, and the best defense is a gallant offense such as libel. If Capone claims the reward from Colliers', Mr. Morgan, by putting the government on one of its fashionable lists will see that Capone is set free. Capone would no doubt like to round off the Century of Progress with a riotous New Year's eve on the Loop. But for the present, while...
...doubtful whether this insult should be officially noticed but the Oklahoma State Senate, as an added tribute to the memory of the State's illustrious first governor, takes this occasion to give official denunciation to this infamous libel and an exposure of the author who gave it expression and the TIME, the magazine whose circulation depends upon its brazen iniquity...