Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
...libel and a deep hurt to me, and to prove how mistaken you are, I'm enclosing a lovely, authentic portrait of me done in oils by Bill Scott, Minneapolis Times-Tribune artist...
...grew; Congressmen took to quoting it; its facts were a gold mine for left-wing cribbers. By 1936 the Modern Library edition (sales: 25,000) could say honestly that the History of the Great American Fortunes was a semi-classic of research. Author Myers has never been sued for libel...
...rally, Richard M. Russell '14 termed his opponent in the mayoralty campaign, Mayer John W. Lyons, a "waster, libeler, and slanderer," and called upon the voters to save Cambridge from "bankruptcy and ruin." Lyons recently lost a $12,000 libel suit to John D. Lynch whom he had libelously attacked...
...libel that the State Department is made up of "cookie-pushers" whose chief concern is the hang of their striped trousers, was just true enough to make many a grave, correct, dry-worded gentleman in the Department dislike the appointment of Joe Kennedy to London. They correctly foresaw such incidents as Kennedy's telling Queen Elizabeth to her face that she was "a cute trick." They did not foresee that Queen Elizabeth would be pleased and flattered beyond words...