Word: libelous
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...committee members were old hands at the game. Among them: Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, head of the newly formed Joint Committee Against Communism; Mrs. Hester McCullough, whose defense against a libel suit brought by Dancer Paul Draper and Harmonica Player Larry Adler ended in a hung jury (TIME, June 5); Managing Editor Theodore Kirkpatrick of the anti-Communist newsletter Counterattack, who served with the FBI for three years during World War II. Their bible was a $1 book, Red Channels, put out by Counterattack as a directory of suspected Reds and party-liners in the entertainment business...
Oregon's mischievous Wayne Morse inquired innocently whether it wasn't a fact that the Southern states had shirked responsibility in helping to provide for their own highways. Douglas agreed that it might be so. Arkansas' McClellan was on his feet protesting such an outrageous libel. McKellar pounded his gavel so hard it flew out of his hands, fixed Douglas in a baleful stare, invoked Rule 19, which forbids any Senator to speak derogatorily of a state, and demanded unanimous consent to have Douglas' remarks expunged...
...sued him for divorce, complaining that he gave her only $10 a week to run the house and was wont to belabor her and the three oldest of the four kids with a blackjack. Reformers started a recall movement, and Attorney John J. Fish slapped a $100,000 libel suit on Orville for accusations he had made while electioneering. The mayor talked his wife into dropping the divorce suit and outwitted those who wanted to recall him-but he lost the libel suit...
...prosecutors who had been assailed for mishandling the Amerasia case (although the report slipped lightly over the refusal of Amerasia Editor Philip Jaffe to testify for fear of possible self-incrimination). The report also urged a careful restudy of the principle of congressional immunity, which gave Joe McCarthy his libel-proof soapbox...
After disregarding one court order to appear for questioning, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler turned up to talk things over with Quentin Reynolds' lawyer. Free-lance Writer Reynolds had brought a $500,000 libel suit (TIME, Dec. 12) against Pegler for calling him, among other things, a "fourflusher" and a "nudist...