Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California, where Senator McAdoo's opponents charged a 5% salary "shakedown" of Federal employes for his campaign fund. Mr. McAdoo's reply: slander & libel by "desperate...
...have taken the time and trouble in the midst of the busy life of a medical practitioner to obtain some official figures which I hope will give the time-worn libel its quietus...
Other observers have other views. When H. L. Mencken was editing the American Mercury he once said to George Jean Nathan: "The three of us are in the same business, libel, but Winchell seems to know where to stop...
...begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...
Most ominous libel suit of all was one filed last week against the Daily Worker, its editor, Clarence A. Hathaway, and Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, by Max Eastman, author (Enjoyment of Laughter) and lecturer, whose skillful translations of Trotsky's works have done much to keep Trotsky's ideas current in the English-speaking world. Author Eastman charged that the Daily Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against...