Word: libeling
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...reply to a statement made by a group of editors on last year's Executive Board in which they said that they would welcome a law suit brought against them for libel by any of the tutoring schools, Wolff said that he would defend himself against "their accusations in a court...
...Wolff says a libel suit against the '40 Crimson editors wasn't his idea. It wasn't the editors' idea either; anyone can look in the February 7 Transcript and see that it was Mr. Benjamin Bowker's, who has worked for Mr. Wolff for years. In fact, the grapevine has been humming of a prospective suit for months. Yet Mr. Wolff has it all figured out that he is a poor helpless fly entangled in a spider's web, and that his decision to sue is an act of martyrdom. Actually, none of his points in support of this...
Comic Fred Allen's self-written weekly scripts are regularly combed for libel, slander, offense to tender sensibilities. But now & then, despite radio's stout guarding, Allen manages to sink a punch line into some touchy solar plexus. He has never been sued for anything he has said on the air, but this season he has set a-storming: 1) Philadelphia's hotelkeepers, because of a crack about the size and appointments of Philadelphia hotel rooms; 2) the drug-store trade, over a yarn about a would-be pharmacist who "flunked in chow mein...
Terrified by the possibility that their bank account (Postal Savings) may be attached and their building converted into an Irish night club if Mickey Sullivan wins his $100,000 libel suit, Lampoon members last night made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a hearing at the Cambridge City Council meeting...
...tell the truth." Editorially it made reference to "inaccuracies and misstatements," to "speakers who are careless of the truth." These cracks, plus some earlier ones by the Free Press's Editorial Director Malcolm Wallace Bingay, formed the basis of Father Coughlin's $4,000,000 suit for libel...