Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Medical School professors are among seven defendant doctors in a $250,000 libel suit brought by Robert E. Lincoln, originator of a controversial method for treatment of cancer. Lincoln is also suing the Massachusetts Medical Society...
Lincoln's charge is that a report which the Medical Society made in March, 1952, was "a false and malicious libel" that held him up to contempt and ridicule. Lincoln is a former member of the Society. The organization said last March that it had requested his resignation...
...warned, however, that if the Democrats did go through with the suit he wouldn't pull any punches" in defending himself and would use "every legal means" to see he wins the case. He pointed out that he could, if he wished, use the Democrats for both libel and malicious prosecution...
McCarthy retorted that Biddle was a "thoroughly discredited" man and denounced his action as "criminal libel...
...Washington for the inauguration, Columnist Westbrook Pegler shook hands with a man he thought was an admirer, found he had accepted a summons from a process server: a $5,100,000 assault-libel-conspiracy suit filed by Fellow Columnist Drew Pearson...