Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anonymous sources, said Link, told him: "Mr. Siskind is giving Mr. Boyle half of the Lithofold fee and it will show up in Boyle's bank account." Link and his paper were so sure of their facts that they were willing to risk libel by printing them, he added. So far there have been no suits. "Of course," said Link, "the libel suit would open things up so wide that I doubt if he will ever file...
McCarthy the Witness. McCarthy was off to a downtown law office, where he was giving a pretrial deposition in the libel suit brought against him by Columnist Drew Pearson. Pearson was also suing for $250,000 damages for "unprovoked physical assault" during a party at the Sulgrave Club...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...
...name them off the Senate floor, where he would not have congressional immunity? Sure he would, he told a group of Washington newspapermen, if they would guarantee in advance to print the list-not part of it, but every word of it. "I assume that 20 would sue for libel," Joe said jauntily. "You could win of course, but the costs might first be a couple of $100,000s. I'd be sued too, but I'm willing to take the chance." The newsmen declined. Then Joe, as he has before, read his list from the sanctuary...
...back street' type of campaign" which helped elect Baltimore Republican John Marshall Butler, unhorsed Maryland's Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. There wasn't enough legal evidence to warrant kicking Butler out of the Senate, said the committee, but in the future such "defamation, slander and libel" by a candidate's agents should be made reason enough. Joe McCarthy had been "actively interested" in the Butler campaign and the subcommittee thought a "sitting Senator" involved in another's campaign shenanigans should be made just as liable. The subcommittee's report was unanimous, signed not only...