Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhaps little heed will be given any defense of the animal," say Pigs' authors with a touch of bitterness, "and people will continue to libel him to the end of his days. But when that end comes, what a turn-about-face! When pig becomes pork, what eulogies, what panegyrics...
...papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed it. Miffed, Billy notified the Trib that he would not renew his contract next May. The Trib dropped him on the spot. But Billy had the last word: the New York Daily News (circ. 2,287,337) snapped...
...Deutsche Partei promptly expelled Hedler, the Bundestag lifted his parliamentary immunity. Early this month, Hedler was haled into Neumünster court to answer charges of defamation of the Jews, incitement to class hatred, libel of Knoeringen, Steltzer and Schumacher. Of the three judges, two were ex-Nazis. Last week they found Hedler legally blameless...
...said. "Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity." Two nights later Chambers repeated his charges over the radio. A month later Hiss brought a $50,000 (later increased to $75,000) suit against Chambers for libel. The case vanished briefly behind the closed doors of the New York grand jury, where Chambers appeared and seven times denied that any actual espionage had been involved; behind the closed doors of Hiss's lawyer's office in Baltimore, where Chambers began making pre-trial depositions...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...