Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's scandalmongers committing libel when they broadcast defamatory remarks from a script-or is it just slander?* Until last week this was a wide-open legal question. Then the New York Court of Appeals provided an answer by handing down a unanimous and-to radio-chilling decision...
...Claiming slander by the N.A.M. against C.I.O. and A.F.L. leaders...
Testifying at the Lilienthal hearings a fortnight ago, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the thoroughly accurate judgment that "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." His frankness cocked a few U.S. ears; it set the Kremlin a-growl. Barked Comrade Molotov: "Inadmissible behavior. . . gross slander and hostile to the Soviet Union...
...Under our standards a restrained comment on a matter of public policy is not a slander. Therefore, I know that on second thought you will not attribute hostility to frankness...
What a relief to get back to TIME again after years of our British cap-touching, bootlicking press, cowed into the "everyone is so wonderful" line by our hush-hush libel and slander...