Word: libelous
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...false pretense of sending an ambulance to the territory of the Spanish Government. Obtaining money under false pretenses is a criminal act punishable by imprisonment, and the authors of such a written accusation must prove their case or be prepared to defend themselves against a suit for criminal libel...
Automat Manager James Levy, who prides himself on his spotless kitchen, had the pickets arrested for criminal libel...
...liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel and blasphemy For two hours the rival police squadrons glared at each other in stubborn deadlock. Then Mr. O'Hara calmly walked out, dismissed his guard, received the warrant, and walked into another court episode in what by last week had become the bitterest sporting and political...
...this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over the many lawsuits he has brought against Episcopal dignitaries, including one pending for libel against Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry. Lutheran Rev. Reginald Beasil Naugle specializes in fighting labor unions, and last week he cried, "We're in Russia now!" after persons unknown smashed a door glass and window of his house by hurling milk bottles. And Philadelphia is also the home...
...rich, hardboiled Max Annenberg, now circulation director of the New York News (biggest in the U. S.), pre-War circulation manager in Chicago for Hearst and then the Tribune, took steps to clear his name of having had any part in fostering Chicago rough stuff. His lawyers began a libel suit for $250,000 against Burton Rascoe, author, and Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers of the book, Before I Forget. Mr. Rascoe, who was writing for the Tribune when Mr. Annenberg was there, remembered in his book a lot of things that had happened to delivery trucks and newsstand dealers...