Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer advised him that a proposed step was not quite legal, Carter roared: "The trouble with you is you're such a goddam technical lawyer." On giving orders for a blistering editorial, he is likely to caution: "Don't put too god dam much Christianity in it. Libel? You trying to tell me what I can put in my own paper...
Armored with the Senate's immunity from libel suits, the man from Wisconsin rose and fired a McCarthy wad at Philleo Nash, 42, Harry Truman's special assistant on problems of minority groups in the U.S. Said McCarthy: Nash was a member of the Communist Party in the early '40s, his home in Toronto once was a Communist spy rendezvous, and at one time he was "in close contact with the Communist underground in Washington." As his sources, McCarthy listed FBI and Loyalty Review Board files, which are supposed to be closed even to a Senator...
When the reporters reached McCarthy, he assumed a cold and haughty attitude. "If I sued everybody who called me dirty names . . . I'd be suing every Communist paper, every leading Communist in the country for libel and slander," he said. "If the President wants to engage in name-calling, he can go right ahead ... I can't imagine anyone being damaged by the President calling him dirty names." A few days later, McCarthy repeated his charges against Nash in a Milwaukee speech. "There is no immunity here," he said...
...parlors out of business. He snapped a picture of seven students in an illegal cram session at Parker-Cramer and retreated with a tutor close behind him. When the picture was printed, Cramer filed suit against eleven editors for $55,000, on the grounds of trespass and libel. The case was settled out of court...
...whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes had as many as three wives at once...