Word: libellant
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Indicted last April on charges of criminal libel against President Roosevelt, Edward H. James '96, leader of the fascistic "Yankee-American Action" which held weekly meetings in PBH two years ago, was adjudged sane in a report submitted Friday by two Boston psychiatrists to Judge Vincent Brogna of the Middlesex superior criminal court...
Some Congressmen spoke darkly of hauling up some offending editors and columnists before Congressional committees, of ramming through libel laws to shake the press's teeth, of getting radio time to take their case to the people. Isolationists, whose pre-Pearl Harbor record has frequently been thrown back at them, cried for an investigation of an alleged "smear" gang said to be behind...
...story was generally known in New York City and Washington, but except for Manhattan's PM (which published brief, cautious mention of the Post stories) all the rest of the U.S. press, afraid of libel and shrinking from dirt, avoided the story like the plague. The Senate tiptoed about, unwilling to face the fact that accusations of the worst kind had been publicly leveled at one of its members. Senator Barkley last week offered an excuse: when Senator Walsh came to him, "visibly agitated," he advised him to sit tight until the FBI could be got to make...
...Senator Walsh "upon the calm demeanor which he has exhibited in the face of this contemptuous and contemptible charge." Last week, after Senator Barkley revealed the scandal to the nation at large, Senator Walsh's calm demeanor continued. Up to this week he had yet to file a libel suit against the Post...
...known facts made only one thing indisputable: either a serious scandal was being hushed up or a really diabolical libel had been perpetrated...