Word: libelous
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...person to be in the massage business, demanded that her license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts hold the British Press to strict accountability in the handling of late news...
...demurrer to the libel suit the Journal claimed "free press...
...Several of them," said newshawks to one another, "are broke. They would like nothing better than a chance to bring a libel suit against someone...
...talking about Fundamentalists-chief subject of conversation in Cincinnati last week as 1,000 commissioners (ministers and elders) gathered for the 147th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. But beyond stressing the obvious point that it would not do to call a Fundamentalist a scoundrel, such libel talk only exaggerated the simple fact that the "Bible-believing" minority of the Presbyterian Church was restless, irritable, unhappy. Well it might be, for it knew that the 147th General Assembly was ready to belabor it and vote it down at every turn...
...courtroom in Berne, Switzerland, ''when people everywhere will be astonished to learn that in the year 1935 it was necessary to talk for 17 days about possible authenticity in this incredible nonsense which is called the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' " Thus closing the libel suit brought by Swiss Jews against Swiss Nazis (TIME, Nov. 12; May 13), Judge Meyer let off three defendants entirely, let off two others with niggling fines, announced he was unable to ban circulation of the spurious Protocols throughout Switzerland...