Word: libellant
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During his primary campaign, New York's Congressman Ham Fish was linked to jailed Bundist Fritz Kuhn in a newspaper ad. The ad was paid for by a committee headed by Playwright Maxwell Anderson. Promptly Ham Fish sued for $250,000 libel. Sniffed Anderson: "It is his practice to bring suits during a campaign, make a big howl about them and then drop them quietly when the campaign is over." Last week, the campaign over (TIME, Aug. 14), Ham Fish quietly dropped his suit...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 46, old-time sharpshooting, jail-breaking U.S. public enemy No. 1, now behind bars in Stateville (Ill.) on a 99-year-term for kidnapping, sued 20th Century-Fox for producing and distributing the film Roger Touhy, Gangster, Balaban & Katz for exhibiting it. Charges: libel, slander and violation of privacy. His bill for bad billing...
Henry Morgenthau was reported by Berlin radio to have stolen the great Bayeux Tapestry, the 231-foot masterpiece showing the Norman invaders, during the Secretary's recent visit to Normandy-thus adding the charge of libel to those for which Germany's war criminals may be tried...
Screamed the Moscow radio: "A libel on the Soviet High Command. . . . The London Polish circles responsible for the Warsaw uprising made no attempt to coordinate the revolt with the Soviet High Command. The responsibility thus lies with the Polish émigré circles in London...
...said that Jews favor the New Deal. Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free...