Word: slander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neophyte attorneys take civil cases of all types, ranging from libel and slander to illegitimacy, with marital difficulties furnishing the large part of the work...
...Frank Reel '28, one of the men endorsed by the Plan E Committee. "False, completely and utterly false," Reel stated of the publication last night. Reel declared his intension of bringing suit against Daniel F. O'Brien, Democratic Chairman, for $25,000 on charges of libel and slander. "I'm afraid it will affect my chances at the polls tomorrow," Reel stated gloomily...
...laws of economics will fix things up; that, besides, he couldn't do anything about it if he wanted to. The thing that gets him excited is the insinuation that he has been an accessory, before or after the fact, in any crookedness. That is unjustifiable slander. Mr. Green makes the windows rattle with his shouts of self-defense. Were all bankers crooked because Richard Whitney went to prison? he asks. Is Mr. Green a crook because there are a few irrepressible extroverts among the 4,247,443 paid-up members of his union? Mr. Green's rhetorical...
...Jumpy German nerves made it worth four months' imprisonment for the classically quarrelsome Walloons and Flemish to slander one another with "Dirty Boche...
...common to speak of the newspapers of today as purely commercial enterprises managed with an eye single to profits . . . got by avoiding all intellectual difficulties and appealing to common passions and prejudices. The facts . . . suggest that for most of the press of the U. S., this is a slander. . . . Those who make newspapers apparently still in large measure consider their craft to be that of getting and presenting news...