Word: libelous
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Armored with the Senate's immunity from libel suits, the man from Wisconsin rose and fired a McCarthy wad at Philleo Nash, 42, Harry Truman's special assistant on problems of minority groups in the U.S. Said McCarthy: Nash was a member of the Communist Party in the early '40s, his home in Toronto once was a Communist spy rendezvous, and at one time he was "in close contact with the Communist underground in Washington." As his sources, McCarthy listed FBI and Loyalty Review Board files, which are supposed to be closed even to a Senator...
...parlors out of business. He snapped a picture of seven students in an illegal cram session at Parker-Cramer and retreated with a tutor close behind him. When the picture was printed, Cramer filed suit against eleven editors for $55,000, on the grounds of trespass and libel. The case was settled out of court...
...whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes had as many as three wives at once...
...after Morrison flopped on his job. The Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial had claimed a big share in Labor's 1945 victory and its return to power in 1950, and Fleet Street whispered that the paper had become Morrison's mouthpiece. Finally the Mirror was sued for libel by Winston Churchill, for labeling him a warmonger during the last election...
...states and one territory* have already enacted protective legislation safeguarding the stations from such libel actions. But unless Congress acts to take all broadcasters off the libel hook, many stations may adopt the only alternative left them and refuse to carry any political speeches...