Word: libelous
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What a relief to get back to TIME again after years of our British cap-touching, bootlicking press, cowed into the "everyone is so wonderful" line by our hush-hush libel and slander...
...Institute of Arts was the waspish Victorian dandy's famed Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket-the splattery nightscape that moved John Ruskin to a crack about "a coxcomb flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." (Bad Boy Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, won a farthing's damages.) Asking price for Nocturne that year (1875) was $1,000. Price reportedly paid by Detroit...
Because a Congressman's remarks are privileged, Messrs. Acheson and Clayton could not sue Representative Shafer for libel. All they could do was deny the obviously ridiculous charges. Will Clayton pointed out that the Commodity Credit Corp. had itself made most foreign cotton shipments in the last fiscal year, had supervised the rest "to the substantial benefit of the Government and the American cotton farmer." Dean Acheson announced that he had given up his law practice the day he entered the State. Department, had since had "no connection with or financial interest in the business of the firm...
...ideas of Author Louis Adamic. And five years later, when Adamic published his Dinner at the White House, a between-courses sizeup of the President and the Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 2). he garnished it with anti-Churchill references. Churchill sued for libel, citing a footnote on page 151 of Dinner...
...rude," interrupted Sir Patrick, who had been Labor Attorney General in 1924. "When you are rude to other people you think that is argument, but when people say something about you, you bring actions for libel...