Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rights with the country after your false statement, for which you have not a scintilla of fact, had presented him to the nation as an intemperate and im- proper person to be United States Judge. It would have been far better, Mr. Secretary, if you would retract your own libel of Judge Wilson and put your own house in order before intruding your unwelcome person into purely legislative matters. . . . You have the effrontery to tell me in the legislative branch how to conduct a fair hearing when you don't even know the definition of the word 'fairness...
...Harrison's Reports, cinema trade paper. Actually, the persons mentioned had not been indicted in Ontario but merely mentioned in an indictment brought against others. Harrison's Reports and The Churchman, which promptly published a retraction when it discovered its bad blunder, were sued for libel by Gabriel Hess, general counsel for the Hays organization. From the cinema paper this spring Mr. Hess won damages for $5,200. Last month a Supreme Court jury in Manhattan found Dr. Shipler and his fortnightly jointly guilty of libel, assessed them $10,000 for punitive damages, $200 for actual damages...
...person to be in the massage business, demanded that her license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts hold the British Press to strict accountability in the handling of late news...
...demurrer to the libel suit the Journal claimed "free press...
...talking about Fundamentalists-chief subject of conversation in Cincinnati last week as 1,000 commissioners (ministers and elders) gathered for the 147th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. But beyond stressing the obvious point that it would not do to call a Fundamentalist a scoundrel, such libel talk only exaggerated the simple fact that the "Bible-believing" minority of the Presbyterian Church was restless, irritable, unhappy. Well it might be, for it knew that the 147th General Assembly was ready to belabor it and vote it down at every turn...