Word: libels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporter Stern slapped a libel suit on L'Unità, and last week he won it. Two L'Unità writers and the paper's assistant director sheepishly told a Rome tribunal that they meant "no reflection on Mr. Stern's professional honor." The court ordered the paper to pay 500,000 lire ($800) in damages, plus 350,000 lire ($560) in costs and fines...
Forthwith, Mayor Dreier filed a $100,000 libel suit against the Independent for running an ad which pictured him as "unscrupulous, dishonest and corrupt." When Dreier's case against the Independent came to trial, the paper was ready for him. It put on the stand a cop who testified that he had paid Dreier $50 as a down payment for his job on the force. It also came out that city workers had fixed up the mayor's house with some $9,000 worth of improvements just before its tax assessment was reduced. Dreier's secretary stepped...
...dropped. Last week Mayor Dreier was sitting mum in office while the district attorney looked over the record to see if there were grounds for criminal action. Said a headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin: PEOPLE OF NANTICOKE ASK "WHERE'S OUR MAYOR SINCE HE DROPPED THAT $100,000 LIBEL SUIT...
...London last week, Prime Minister Winston Churchill dropped a libel suit against the London Daily Mirror, world's largest (circ. 4,500,000) daily newspaper. Churchill charged that the paper libeled him (TIME, Dec. 31) by implying, on the day of the last general election, that he was a warmonger. He withdrew his suit after the Mirror agreed to pay full court costs, print a front-page apology, and make a contribution to a charitable fund for elderly people that Churchill named. Said the Mirror's apology: "The statements and pictures referred to never intended to suggest that...
...charged that the Agriculture Department juggled storage rules to please old friends of the Administration. Senator Kem, said Brannan, was against "nearly everything the farmers needed"; what was more, he was willing to document the charges. Cried Kem: "I'm putting you on notice right now that, libel laws being what they are, you'd better document them very thoroughly." After Kem refreshed Brannan on his voting record, Brannan backed down...