Word: libelous
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...Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...
Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...
...Jewish world-conspiracy is the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Always purporting to be fact, this ingenious work has been circulated in 15 languages. Last year Swiss Jews caught Swiss Nazis distributing copies of it. Eager to scotch the old charge publicly, the Jews brought a libel suit which became a criminal action when it appeared that the Nazis had violated a Swiss law against circulating literature "calculated to excite vile instincts or to cause brutal offense...
...Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful...
...write in the blunt Saxon tongue" will climb to the top. City Editor Walker pays a rare tribute to "The Man With the Green Eyeshade" -the underpaid, unappreciated copyreader, who cuts the purple prose out of the reporter's copy, corrects his spelling, keeps the paper out of libel suits. He salutes the energy and courage of photographers, deplores the sneering superiority of reporters...