Word: libelously
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...give me that smart-ass Jewish attitude, because I've been a smart-ass Jew for 16 years of my life." The police newspaper has called him "Bozo the Clown"; for this and other insults, he has filed a $200,000 libel suit...
...with British Critic John Ruskin in 1875. "I have seen, and heard, much of the cockney impudence before now," Ruskin told a gallery director, "but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for slinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a celebrated libel trial, during which the painting (The Falling Rocket) was exhibited upside down, the 44-year-old Whistler argued that his asking price was for the knowledge of a lifetime. Whistler won the case-and was granted one farthing in damages...
...very clearly the conspiracy theory he spent so much time investigating. After he lost the Shaw case, he wrote a book, A Heritage of Stone, about the Warren Report and the CIA's involvement in the assassination, but a cohesive theory never emerges--probably because Garrison wanted to avoid libel suits and couldn't get access to the secret files he needed to prove his case. The book ends up saying that the CIA and the Pentagon wanted Kennedy out because he was trying to bring peace to Southeast Asia. They formed a conspiracy--Garrison hinted that Lyndon Johnson...
...time Democratic mayor of Philadelphia from 1955-62; of a malignant brain tumor; in Philadelphia. A brilliant lawyer who served in the Marine Corps in World Wars I and II, Dilworth mounted vitriolic attacks against Republicans who had controlled and corrupted city hall since 1884; sued four times for libel, he won every case, and helped Co-Reformer Joseph Clark win the mayoralty in 1951 before being elected himself in 1954. Named by FORTUNE one of the nine best mayors in America, Dilworth was unsuccessful in two attempts to become Governor. But as president of Philadelphia's board...
Died. Richard F. Cleveland, 76, eldest son of Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a prominent Maryland attorney; in Baltimore. Cleveland, who represented Whittaker Chambers in the libel suit brought by Alger Hiss, was active in the presidential campaigns of one Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and three Republicans, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower...