Word: libelously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted (53-to-17) a resolution by Nebraska's Norris dismissing David Sheldon Barry as Sergeant-at-Arms for his offending article in New Outlook. Libel action against the magazine was dropped...
...Senator Carter Glass concerning branch banking. To the committee, Mr. Barry quoted the Senator in his own defense: "'. . . They hired some Congressmen, to my positive and documentary knowledge, to oppose even that small measure of branch banking.'" Meanwhile, Senator Walsh of Montana suggested that criminal libel proceedings be started against the New Outlook...
There were rascally chapters in "Bon" Bonfils history, passages which lawyers for his enemy, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, promised to prove in the libel suit (Bonfils v. News) that was pending when Death came. According to those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died...
Last fortnight Editor Bangs was jailed on charges of criminal libel against the banks. Out on bail he found that electricity, gas, steam had been shut off from his plant. Then Editor Bangs's readers did for him what New York Times readers probably would not do for Adolph Ochs. Women's organizations hurried to the News plant with lanterns. Farmers drove in with gasoline pressure lamps. Friends rigged a gasoline melting pot for linotype metal. Willing, brawny arms hauled an old automobile into the plant, hitched its engine to the News press. Crowds milled around the doors...
...showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State Castle praising Washington correspondents. But the Press found no news in a $54,200 libel verdict against William...