Word: libelous
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Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President, Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel-free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nau-seating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
...that did not satisfy Wyatt. On March 14, in another libel-proof speech on the state Senate floor, he accused three professors of "Communistic, subversive activity." They were Morris E. Garnsey, an economics professor; John C. Livingston, an economics instructor; and Dr. Harl Douglass, director of the College of Education. Wyatt based his charge against Gurnsey on the fact that a student in Garnsey's class had told him Garnsey had said in private conversation, "we ought to change our form of government and try another." Each of the three denied the charge absolutely...
...outspoken opinions. Last February, when Duggan was fired by NBC's station WNBQ for saying on the air that President Jim Norris of the International Boxing Club was "palling around with gangsters," the station was swamped with protests. An NBC apology persuaded Norris to withdraw his libel suit and Duggan was returned...
Lincoln's charge is that a report which the Medical Society made in March, 1952, was "a false and malicious libel" that held him up to contempt and ridicule. Lincoln is a former member of the Society. The organization said last March that it had requested his resignation...
...warned, however, that if the Democrats did go through with the suit he wouldn't pull any punches" in defending himself and would use "every legal means" to see he wins the case. He pointed out that he could, if he wished, use the Democrats for both libel and malicious prosecution...