Word: libellant
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...little man to whom Mr. Hearst passed the staggering responsibilities of revamping his empire is one of his oldest but least publicized advisers. Clarence Shearn intended to be a newspaperman, but one of the first stories he wrote as a New York Times reporter resulted in a libel suit. Assigned to help frame the defense, Reporter Shearn soon took the law for a livelihood. In the early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents...
...celebrate its 15th birthday, TIME is reviving malicious libel. . . . Referring to TIME, Vol. 1, No. 1, Miscellany: a Polish Jew does not thank God he is not "a dog, a woman, of a Christian." A Polish Jew gives prayer of thanks "he was not created a slave, he was not created a woman, he was not created a goy." There is no reference to dogs in the entire Jewish prayer book. The prayer originated 2,000 years ago in days of slavery, legal incapacity for females, idolatry among the goyim. Goy does not mean a Christian. Goyim literally means...
...Focus Editor Leslie T. White managed last week to put his brand-new monthly picture magazine in the news by getting himself indicted for criminal libel by a Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...
...believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make it a rule not to engage in a fumigation contest with a skunk...
...radio station KEHE that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials had propped up dead Actor Robert McWade (TIME, Jan. 31), photographed the back of his head to complete a scene in Of Human Hearts. To backers of New York's proposed Berg Bill, designed to bring radio slander under the libel laws, Hollywood's resounding reproof of Gossiper Garrett brought great satisfaction; to harebrained radio gossipers, pause...