Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice-in-a-Jiffy. A short, stocky man, who presided over every kind of case, from the unsuccessful libel suit brought by Harold Laski against the paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich...
Blackjacks & Threats. His enemies fought back, sometimes cleverly, sometimes crudely. Four libel suits were filed against him for a total of $175,000; Dunn won two and the other two were dropped. Voices on the phone snapped, "Lay off the clubs or I'll kill you." In 1955 Dunn was blackjacked. A few days later, an ex-Marine boxer told him that he had been offered $500 by the chief of police to give him a beating. At the trial of the police chief (on a charge of soliciting a person to commit a felony), Brother Richard Kellam handled...
...Editor Dunn, 59. an ex-University of Virginia halfback and baseball captain, landed some blows of his own. When the machine's Sun-News called him a liar, Dunn sued for libel, won a verdict (still under appeal) of $65,000-largest in the state's history. And though the Kellams stayed in power, the gamblers gradually began to leave Virginia Beach...
...finances, John Fox has had federal tax liens slapped on his properties, been hauled through Boston's Poor Debtors' Court, been arrested for failure to meet court judgments against him and for failure to pay back wages to former Post employees, last week was collared on criminal libel charges. Even his old Boston friends have come to realize that he is a bitter, discredited, broken...
Brother Fast Ears. In 1954, when he was secretary-general of Yoshida's ruling Liberal Party, Sato resigned over charges that he had taken $150,000 in bribes to promote legislation favorable to big business. After a libel trial that lasted two years, he finally collected $138.50 damages from a magazine. Sato coolly defended himself: "My job was to raise party funds; I did nothing that any politician who knew his job would not have done...