Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, Powell has ducked paying a $46,500 libel judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow whom Powell labeled on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
...also rarely attends.) But even so, the net is closing. In 1908 the Supreme Court ruled that Congressmen are not immune from criminal as opposed to civil arrest, and New York issued a criminal warrant for Powell last July. It stems from his alleged fraudulent transfer (evading the libel payment) of a $900 check that Esquire paid him for an article ironically titled "The Duties and Responsibilities of a Congress man of the United States." According to the charge, Powell had the money paid to his wife; then it wound up in his congressional account...
...York judge who issued the criminal warrant mercifully stayed its execution "during session of the Congress." But the judge can always modify her mercy. Meanwhile, Powell has petitioned the Supreme Court for review of the libel judgment, which was upheld by New York's highest state court. The Supreme Court may be ready to accept or reject Powell's appeal on Jan. 18. If it turns him down, the libel judgment will be final...
During his 1962 re-election campaign, Washington Democratic State Representative John Goldmark and his ex-Communist wife Sally were loudly labeled subversives by the weekly Tonasket Tribune and some local John Birchers. When Goldmark lost, he and his wife slapped a $225,000 libel suit on five of their critics. Last winter the trial jury denied recovery to Sally, but awarded $40,000 to Goldmark on the grounds that he was beaten by criticism that overreached the limits of fair comment (TIME...
...simply did not report the meeting at all. The memorandums he submitted of later meetings, maintains Boyd, were nothing but "gross misrepresentations." Hamilton's indication that the British favored alliance he calls "deliberate distortion," and his notation discrediting the performance of U.S. Minister to London Gouverneur Morris was "libel...