Word: libelous
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...Many an aspect of life has kept Jimmy's mind humming: the 2,400-acre Duke estate in New Jersey, a million-dollar cottage in Hawaii, his Synchronization Theory, birth control, sterilization of defectives, libel laws, publicity and, most recently, politics. Four years ago, shy, handsome Doris Duke Cromwell, who up to then had taken no part in the political conversation, gave the Democrats $50,000. By happy coincidence, or perhaps synchronization, last January Jimmy was appointed U. S. Minister to Canada...
...freedom of speech and modern medievalism: If a man "pries into the balance sheet of a great financial corporation and publishes the truth about it, we send him to hard labor without writing materials. We no longer call it heresy. Our secular theologians call it criminal libel...
...machine. A photographer from the New Orleans' States got a picture of a State University truck being used to haul building supplies to the half-built house of the wife of a Long machine-man - and the States's fighting editor, 64-year-old Jim Crown, had libel-proof evidence of the graft that every body knew was going on. As his disclosures were followed by a Federal investigation, the record stood: more than 200 parish and Federal indictments had been returned, three men had committed suicide, five had pleaded guilty, five more had been tried and convicted...
...ever run out of money," John Held, Jr., Adams House art advisor and creator of the famous comic-sheet flapper, "Marge," stated last night, "I'm going to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never been an editor on either the 'New Yorker' or the old 'Life.' I was merely on their boards...
Born 44 years ago in Elizabeth, N. J., Mitchell went to work for Newark's Journal when the Mitchell family could no longer stand his rehearsing amateur parts at home. The Journal could not stand the retractions and libel suits its imaginative new hand kept getting his paper into. Later other papers felt the same way. So young Tom switched to vaudeville. Then he landed a job with Ben Greet's Shakespearean players, followed by two years of carrying Shakespeare to U. S. college campuses in the company of Charles Coburn. By 1920, Mitchell had played some...