Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...
...Washington apartment or his Bethany Beach cottage) while pacing the floor. Faithful Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson sets the harangue down on paper, helps the General whip it into literary shape later. It is then wired to United Feature's Managing Editor William Laas, who deletes the outright libel and graver profanity, sends the copy smoking on its way to the presses...
...false pretense of sending an ambulance to the territory of the Spanish Government. Obtaining money under false pretenses is a criminal act punishable by imprisonment, and the authors of such a written accusation must prove their case or be prepared to defend themselves against a suit for criminal libel...
Automat Manager James Levy, who prides himself on his spotless kitchen, had the pickets arrested for criminal libel...
...liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel and blasphemy For two hours the rival police squadrons glared at each other in stubborn deadlock. Then Mr. O'Hara calmly walked out, dismissed his guard, received the warrant, and walked into another court episode in what by last week had become the bitterest sporting and political...