Word: libeller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that, unless the language which I have quoted above is retracted in as prominent position in the next issue of your paper as was occupied by the language in question in the issue of February 13, action will be taken to hold you responsible for this libel upon the company, in order that the reputation of that company may be cleared...
...books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed by fire. Professor Muzzey could not refer directly to the existing situation because he has a suit for libel pending against Mayor Thompson and has been forbidden by his lawyers to refer to the case for publication...
...honor of public men is guilty of culpable neglect. The publisher who prints such documents not even believing them to be true; who makes no effort to ascertain if they are true; who disregards internal evidence suggesting that they are forgeries, and who seeks to protect himself against libel suits by partly blotting out names which yet remain identifiable by the associates of the men traduced-that publisher is a disgrace to the profession." Since one of the Hearst documents purports that $25,000 was "ordered paid" from Mexican sources to Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation, he quietly...
...thing was bound to be investigated, and it is a mistake to attribute to Mr. Hearst the ignorance and irresponsibility he pleases to assume. His scheme and purpose will eventually be illuminated. What is important now is that he feels invulnerable because his wealth takes care of libel suits, and because a large part of public opinion depends on the multitudes who read and Publicity believe only his papers. Mr. Ford held the prosperity of many industries in his hand when he decided on his new car; and Mr. Hearst is able to disturb the balance of nations. No doubt...
Coincidental with the new Ford in the flesh, there appeared on the newsstands hereabouts Saturday night a new Boston paper, the Sunday Telegram, edited by the lately released Mr. Enwright. He will be remembered as the gentleman who was charged with libel when he referred to the prison term of a Boston Mayor. The latter, Mr. Curley, with ironic humor, saw that he was put in jail, with the implication that it might be a glass house where one could break stones and not throw them. But Mr. Enwright was not cast down, and arose Prometheus like with his sickly...