Word: libelous
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...reason for this state of affairs is that most of the legal luminaries are Monarchists, who held most of the good jobs in the Kaisers' days- a fact which explains the intellectual superiority of the Monarchist over the antiMonarchist Parties. Recently, Republican Judge Kroner, referring to the Ebert libel suit (TIME, Jan. 5), said a ruling of Monarchist Judge Bewersdorff was "malignant, vulgar, cowardly and impudent." The latter did not take these hard words kindly and was prompt to institute legal proceedings against his Republican colleague. Last week, the case was tried before a Monarchist Judge, who had previously...
...famed abolitionist, who at 22 was editing the first prohibition paper in the country (the National Philanthropist), who at 24 (in 1829) was joint editor of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, published weekly in Baltimore. He went to prison for failure to pay a fine of $50 for libel when he had referred to a ship carrying a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans as engaged in "domestic piracy." Poet Whittier appealed to Henry Clay (slaveholder) to pay the fine for Garrison's release; but Clay was forestalled by a Manhattan philanthropist after Garrison had been...
...case maintaining that: 1) If Pennsylvania's quota is $600,000, the National Republican treasure trove must be $4,000,000 or $5,000,000; 2) "Use elsewhere" meant use in the Middle West; 3) "This campaign to raise enormous slush fund is based on malicious slander and libel. The New York Times says this conspiracy was initiated by William M. Butler, Chairman Republican National Committee, in conference with W. T. Mellon, brother of Secretary of Treasury, and Edward T. Stotesbury, partner of J. P. Morgan...
...well sung. The tunes carry you back to the man who used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...
...they began a campaign of exposure against it. Yadil turned out to be essentially a 1% solution of formaldehyde, flavored with oil of garlic. The Daily Mail was aided in its exposure by Sir William Pope, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge. Threats of suits for libel and injunctions have not deterred The Daily Mail from continuing its exposure...