Word: slandered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fall New York City's loquacious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was sued for $100,000 slander by one William Weidberg, 32. Brooklyn lawyer who charged that when he heckled the Mayor at a political rally, the Mayor called him a "ginmill bum." Last week a New York State Supreme Court decision dismissed the action, called the words "at their worst, merely abusive and ill-chosen...
Disaster, when it came, came from all sides. His wife divorced him, sued a brunette and various others for slander. The Treasury listed him as a tax avoider. Stockholders sued him. SEC got after him, turned its findings over to a U. S. Attorney. Last week in New York a Federal grand jury indicted Wallace Groves, Brother George Groves and Cronies De Ronde and Warriner and five corporations* on 14 counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy. Principal transaction named in the indictment was a neat little deal whereby Wallace Groves was said to have made...
...Mayor LaGuardia of New York City was sued for $100,000 slander by one William Weidberg, 32, Brooklyn lawyer, who charged that when he heckled the mayor at a political rally last week, the mayor called him "a ginmill...
...know full well that the campaign against us in the press, encouraged and abetted by your 'warning,' has reached new heights of unprincipled slander. You know perfectly well that the charges that we intended to 'coerce,' 'mace' or 'shake down' the WPA workers are without an iota of justification in fact...
Said she: "Isn't it lovely?" New Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...