Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hats, slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel himself, ignored the invitation...
...that it does not matter whether or not Richards ordered his employees to slaut the news, since a radio station should be as free as a newspaper to present the news as it sees fit. The only limitation on a publication, they maintain, should be the possibility of a libel suit...
Governor James E. Folsom, in no kissin' mood, sued the Reader's Digest for $1,000,000 on the ground that an article on the Alabama penal system called "Devil's Island, U.S.A." was a libel on him and "on the people of Alabama...
...rage is usually supplanted by a mood of hilarity and revivified cunning. When the pro-Republican Pittsburgh Press protested that his venal, pompous and reactionary politico, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, was a calculated libel on the reputation of the U.S. Senate, Capp had a soft and devilish answer. He replied that he knew nothing of politics but what he read in the Pittsburgh Press, that Phogbound had been suggested by that newspaper's editorial attacks on Democratic politicians, and that he was not only hurt but genuinely amazed to find the Press damning instead of applauding his creation...
City Solicitor John A. Daly said yesterday that the "Reducators" list which names GS faculty members as "Communists, Communists Sympathizers, or fellow travelers" cannot, under libel laws, legally be copied and given to the nine City Councillors and the Chief of Police...