Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety-seven editors let the warning pass, knowing full well that he could be expurgated like anybody else, if he broke the laws of libel or good taste. But red-haired Paul C. Smith, the brassy, crusading wonder boy of the San Francisco
...libel, declared Finsbury's Town Clerk...
...Shameless Libel." To Churchill's charge that Russia dominated her neighbors, Stalin had the unreassuring answer that Soviet security required neighboring governments to be "loyal." In any case, said Stalin, Churchill "rudely and shamelessly libels not only Moscow" but her neighbors, in making such a statement. Germany had been able to overrun all these countries while they were "inimical to the Soviet Union." Russia wanted to protect them and herself by bringing them into her own safe sphere, and "how can one, without having lost one's reason, qualify these peaceful aspirations . . . as 'expansionist tendencies...
...Times explained its one rejection: we don't print libel...
Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...