Word: libellant
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...secretary of the British Trades Union Congress . . . agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped. . . . These things caused the London Daily Worker to publish a series of articles . . ." on the basis of which the Worker was sued for libel...
Shady characters are often involved in shady deals which get them into the press. And many a libel suit is brought against newspapers by shady characters hopeful of windfalls. So some big newspapers, like the New York Herald Tribune, have libel reporters. Virtually a private detective, a libel reporter has to be a good sleuth because his job is to penetrate the respectable disguises of shady characters and prove that they have not been maligned...
...Herald Tribune's, libel reporter is tense, grizzled, fun-loving Jay Racusin. Inquisitive Newsman Racusin, now 47, has been with the Herald Tribune since 1918. As a cub he was the first (and only) newspaperman to interview J. P. Morgan after World War I. Reporter Racusin (known as "Rack") gets plenty of other assignments that call for a passionate curiosity about the lives of his fellow men, a plain-clothes man's eye for significant details. Six weeks ago the Herald Tribune's lanky City Editor Lessing Engelking called Rack and gave him a special assignment...
...cornered by the Department of Justice, registered, under protest, as an agent of a "foreign principal." By unloading the Worker on three amiable old ladies, it appeared that the Communist Party might save itself a lot of trouble and perhaps some financial worries (such as the fine for criminal libel recently imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal...
...grasp the material." As Parker-Cramer kept mum, a Crimson photographer crashed one of its classrooms, took a picture of seven students cramming, dashed out with a tutor in hot pursuit. The Crimson printed the picture. Parker-Cramer promptly sued eleven of its members for trespass and libel...