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...Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating Tammany corruption (TIME, June 13 et ante), Mayor Walker opened his defense with an attack. He charged that Republicans had instigated the inquiry "to divert public attention from the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the nation." He accused Mr. Seabury of "malice, slander, rancorous ill-will," of conducting a "man-hunt...
...dear friend Fokine: I am ending my life by suicide because I cannot bear any longer the slander and persecution of the ballet. It may be that my jump into Niagara Falls will sufficiently disturb you and others to set back the self-inflated modernists. A greater charlatan article in Plain Dealer of Sept. 13, 1931, I have never seen. . . .* This will kill me. . . . The time will come when [Doris Humphrey's statements] will be recollected with bitter shame. . . . Now Ruth St. Denis is dreaming about a religious dance and does not see that the classical ballad dance...
...charges are an] insincere, unprincipled and dishonest campaign of deliberate slander ... by a little handful of ambitious men who seem quite willing to stab the State's greatest institution in the back if they think they might thereby advance their personal or political fortunes...
...that Coca-Cola attempted to interfere with a Loft contract to sell Pepsi-Cola in its stores, threatened to attack the value of Loft stock ($2.50 last week) if the company would not sell Coca-Cola, sent agents to Loft soda fountains to hurt Loft's business by slander and intimidations. Filing a $2,000,000 suit at the same time, making the same charges, was Pepsi-Cola...
Ministers should make large and frequent use of the radio. They should feel free to say anything they like so long as they do not slander or libel. If they offend some hearers, stations are many and dials are easy to twiddle. But-"The radio, as administered by the present Federal Commission, is a class agency, a political agency, and an agency without any real freedom...