Word: libelous
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...Made newspapers subject to libel suits in any county in the state where they had more than 100 subscribers (rather than in the county of publication), a trick to put them at the mercy of Talmadge-controlled rural justice...
...half-truths, lies and simple absurdities slithers out of USA's offices on Pushkin Street in Red-run East Berlin. Free and unrequested, these magazines go by mail to editors, union leaders and other influential men in Western Germany. The Iron Curtain protects the Red editors from libel and copyright suits...
Last week Columnist Drew Pearson kept clear his astonishing record of never losing a libel suit. But for a few days in a Washington court, it was touch & go whether he would. On trial was the suit of California's ex-Attorney General Frederick Napoleon Howser. He wanted $350,000 damages for Pearson's broadcast in 1948 that Howser had accepted $1,200 to protect gamblers...
...time, several California newspapers had also heard about the bribe story from the source, a man of none-too-savory reputation who was also a onetime Howser campaign worker. But they had not dared print it for fear of libel...
...four California Congressmen, who said that Howser's reputation had been poor in 1948. Pearson's most telling evidence: a deposition from the witness who said he had carried the bribe from a gambler direct to Howser. The jury's unanimous verdict: Howser had not been libeled. Pearson was the winner in his ninth libel suit...