Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drew Pearson, 53, has the largest circulation (over 600 papers) of any Washington columnist, thanks partly to his reputation for risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
...major lit out for Paris or the U.S. The editor of New York's Evening Mirror sized him up at first glance in 1849: "We turned from him with the natural disgust we feel for humbugs in general, and literary humbugs in particular." When the major sued for libel and lost, he went back to London, but in 1861 he popped up again in St. Louis in the uniform of a major in the Federal army. Though Major Byron does not show up in War Department records, he was remembered by St. Louis citizens of the time as "modest...
...your May 21 Press section under the heading "Exit from the Nation" you ran a report which conveyed an inaccurate impression . . . Without arguing the merits of [Editor Freda Kirchwey's] libel suit, I want to state that my decision to resign as executive editor of the Nation antedated the libel suit brought against Mr. Clement Greenberg and the New Leader, and no connection between the two actions should be implied...
Alvarez del Vayo usually ran parallel to the Soviet line. Nation staffers were shocked when Editor Kirchwey, who had refused to let Critic Greenberg have his say in the Nation, filed libel suits against him and the anti-Communist New Leader, which printed his story...
Said Theologian Niebuhr this week: "The libel suit . . . brought to a head my disagreement with the Nation on foreign policy." Added Bendiner: "I did not want the continued use of my name on the masthead to imply support of the suit against the New Leader ... a tragic mistake." Gossip in liberal circles said that Editor Field, too, disapproved of the suit, although he insisted he was leaving for "mostly personal reasons." But it was apparent that most liberals seemed to think a liberal publication should be a forum where differences of political opinion could be aired and debated, and that...