Word: libellant
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...realize TIME'S space is valuable. But Mr. Harry B. Press's letter, "Heaven on Earth" [TIME, May 4], written as a backfire on my letter "Santa Monica's Bottles" [TIME, April 20j, contained such words as "peeve," "libel," "free board and room," "weary bones " etc Therefore I feel that TIME might give me a few more lines to say that Mr. Harry Press is really in no position to champion Santa Monica and Santa Monica...
...That the publishers of the Philadelphia Inquirer be felicitated for beating a criminal libel charge brought by Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles Joseph Margiotti (TIME, March...
...stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges of raw furs and hard liquor, Boris Magids journeys to Seattle each year to replenish his chain's stocks...
...trial at Governors Island last week Captain Fleischer dismissed all three accusations as "trivial." His chief counsel, white-mopped, beetling-browed Samuel Tilden Ansell, whose $500,000 libel suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long (TIME, April 24, 1933) was settled by the latter's assassination, asked for a postponement until President Roosevelt answered his protest against the "prejudicial attitude of the court." The court denied the request. The President sent no reply...
...Wisconsin State Journal is concerned, the libel was not softened by attributing the claim to "Meanwell protagonists." In presenting news reports of Wisconsin's great unpleasantness, the State Journal hewed to the line, was neither pro nor con anything or anybody. After both doctors had been dismissed, it did editorially crack down on the athletic board for painting Spears dark black, Meanwell lily white, upholding the board of regents' contention that the aspersions cast on Spears were unfair and unjustified...