Word: slanderers
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...than that which he receives from his regular employer," added that the same was "no doubt" true of Miss Sheldon. For these remarks Senator Guffey could not be sued, because of Congressional immunity for remarks on the floor. But seven days later Newshawk Childs sued Guffey for $100,000 slander, charging that the Senator had made similar statements "in the presence of others...
...ally had a lot to talk about, because the Europe that spread before them is already at war. It is a war of words and nerves, a war fought with weapons so strange and novel that they make machine guns look like good old cross-bows-rolling barrages of slander timed to the minute; ceaseless bombardments of rumors, blankets of lies and alarms as blinding as poison gas; provocations exploding like mines before advancing troops; flank attacks of economic reprisals, feints with threats, promises, atrocities, radio broadcasts, newspaper assaults launched simultaneously and redirected at noon...
...Hoover indignantly yelped at this "vicious personal slander and libel in which there is not the remotest possible truth," demanded an apology in the next Round Table broadcast. In Washington, Columnist Pearson stuck by his pea-shooters, remarked: "No intelligent person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work...
...Little short of slander!" roared Sam Rayburn...
...Justice (Beth Din), which opens this week in Manhattan. The first permanent court of its kind in the U. S., the Beth Din is composed of three black-capped Orthodox rabbis - Max Felshin, Benjamin Fleischer, Reuben Maier-and a secretary, Jacob S. Cohen. It will judge divorce cases, slander suits, business disputes, will decide matters of law which might baffle a single rabbi. For certain grave matters, the rabbis will call in 20 colleagues, to form a small Sanhedrin or 100 rabbis, for a large Sanhedrin...