Word: libelous
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Thus wrote recently, in Toronto one Ernest V. Steiry, editor of newly established atheist weekly Christian Inquirer. Last week he was arrested, charged with "blasphemous, indecent and profane libel of and concerning the holy scriptures and the Christian religion." In vain he pleaded: "I was not writing of the Christian God but the God' of the Jews...
...oaths of allegiance to their country; and shame on those who have forgotten and who have betrayed their country." Perhaps, Attorney Hogan* would have liked to plant his fist in Mr. Heflin's white waistcoat; perhaps, Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have liked to have sued him for libel. But they did not. Mr. Heflin is a Senator, and Senators are public servants, whose words know...
...further order of the licenses of certain newspapers must not be interpreted as a breach of the principle of liberty of the press or of criticism. It is well that everyone knows Fascism does not fear either verbal or actual antagonists. What Fascism refuses to permit is liberty of libel, which is also severely banned by American legislation. That is to say, we insist upon tranquillity arid security for the Italian people, whose productive rhythm must proceed without being disturbed. Do you believe we can stop our march at every step to bend to pick up miserable scraps of paper...
...Finally passed a motion of censure upon Dr. Salter for committing "gross libel on the members of the House and a gross breach of privilege...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...