Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suit that began it all-the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss-was quietly dropped in Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...
...drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
...Chamber of Deputies, by an overwhelming vote, rejected the Deputies' resignation. The Red vilification apparatus clawed at the heretics: They were "traitors . . . automatically expelled." They were trying to smear "the patriotic and peace-defending line of the Communist Party in order to slander the Soviet Union." Party goons threatened Magnani and Cucchi on a train from Rome. Anti-Communist groups gleefully plastered up slogans: "Magnani and Cucchi Chose Italy...
...Santina, and forwarded prints of the negatives with a report to the provincial prefect. The prefect, an appointee of Italy's Christian Democratic government, ordered Ostilio and Santina reinstated until a formal hearing could be held. Ostilio and Santina filed a suit against the mayor for "defamation and slander...
Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries slapped a $150,000 slander suit against two small-time promoters for advertising a bingo-type game called "Conflict" played in "Jeffries' Barn" on his Burbank, Calif, ranch. Such goings-on, 75-year-old Jim Jeffries charged, would hurt his "good name...