Word: libellant
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...Lampoon's tradition is one of free speech, to the point of libel if need be. In 1925 its artist parodied Washington Crossing the Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails. But the anti-Harkness issue seemed to transcend all Lampoon offenses against good taste and sense, and the reason for this seemed to be that the matter in hand was, for once, serious and tangible...
...Aldrich mailed to stockholders a 69-page pamphlet summing up Mr. Rockefeller Jr.'s objections to Col. Stewart and reviewing in great detail the Stewart conduct for the past seven years. Col. Stewart immediately flayed the Aldrich pamphlet as "a cunningly drawn document . . . nothing less than cowardly and dastardly libel...
Suit. The Kansas City museum did not buy the painting. Mrs. Hahn sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 libel...
Hundreds of cases, involving tens of millions of dollars, came into his charge. When Motorman Ford launched his attacks on the Jews (TIME, May 2, 1927 et ante), Lawyer Longley found himself pitted against such famed Manhattan legalites as Samuel Untermyer and Louis Marshall in the most celebrated libel suits since Boss William Barnes charged the late great Theodore Roosevelt with tippling. Together with Missouri's Senator Reed and Lawyer De Lancey Nicoll of Manhattan, Lawyer Longley battled the charges of Aaron Sapiro and Herman Bernstein. In the end, Mr. Ford retracted and the cases were settled...
These measures failing, the Knights agreed to prosecute certain men and organizations responsible. Last week two actions for criminal libel resulted in the conviction of a Savannah evangelist and the indictment of a Christian minister in New Jersey...