Word: slanderers
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...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...
...questioning our "devotion to truth," by using such terms as "examples of distortion," "hedging,' and "suspicion," you leave realm of argument. You have a right to question, but you do not have a right to accuse falsely; your right to criticize does not extend to the right to slander. The ethics of the Crimson as well as the policies it advocates stand in danger of repudiation by the students of Harvard. Richard M. Haber '41, For the Editors of Defense
...Peace, It Is Wonderful!" C. I. O. met to hear its President John Lewis make good his promise to resign. Six hundred delegates heard him. He wept. He resigned. He advised the convention not to "consume your time in criticism and slander and vilification," and hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled...
Cases involving landlord and tenant are the most common, with divorce and separation running close seconds. Five cases of libel and slander, and two involving estates of incompetents were handled last year...