Word: slandered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Senator Wagner read a statement that declared that children of twelve worked 16 hours a day in the beet fields, Senator Borah of Idaho, champion of all righteous causes, leaped to his feet, demanding "Where is it? It is a slander...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
Nevertheless, after viewing the movie several times, the jury decided that, libel or slander, Princess Youssoupov deserved ?25,000 ($126,800) in damages...
...aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation for this gross insult...
...that they had the "Kingfish" down, his many Louisiana enemies lost no time in trying to get him out. At the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans were 32 Federal in come tax investigators, sent by an un sympathetic Administration to probe Senator Long's finances. Two live slander suits pended against him in Washington and Baton Rouge. All eight Louisiana Congressional Districts were organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation of Louisiana politics, and John G. Holland, dismissed sleuth of the same committee...