Word: slandered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the conversation, Hughes not so tactfully referred to his former top aide, Robert A. Maheu, as "a no-good son of a bitch who stole me blind." The phone call helped send Irving to prison-and Maheu to court with a $17 million suit against Hughes for slander. After nearly three years of legal wrangling, a six-person jury in Los Angeles awarded Maheu $2.8 million in damages, to be paid by the Hughes-owned Summa Corporation. "Hughes used to tell me that "there isn't a man I can't buy or destroy,' " recalled Maheu...
...speak. In the early stages of the department's existence, Professor Kilson gained national notoriety as an aggressive critic of Afro-American studies, Black students and so-called lower-class Blacks. He has remarked that the courses in the department were so many examples of "basketweaving." For this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment is an affront to the honor of DuBois's name, an insult to the Black community, in general, and a slap in the face...
...sincerity calls into question the sincerity of Bok's public statement that a "natural relationship would evolve between the department and the institute," whatever the sense we might ascribe to that vacuous phrase. Professor Patterson has said that the department is a "concentration camp." This is an outright slander which Professor Patterson has never seen fit to correct publicly. His appointment raises a speculative point of considerable interest: If the department is a concentration camp, how should the natural relationship between the department and the institute evolve...
...despite fear (and we were scared) we held firm. Even when the cops broke through the glass doors, itching to get at us, we kept on chanting our demands against ROTC and expansion, shouting these demands with one voice so loud the walls shook. I find Shapiro's crude slander of this moment, which he falsely attributes to me, the most disgusting thing about his already fairly well-endowed article...
CAMPAIGN PRACTICES. The President also would make into federal crimes many "dirty tricks" in presidential and congressional elections. Among them: disseminating false instructions to workers, organizing slander campaigns, and rigging opinion polls...