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...Adolf Hitler had said: "I promise you ... I could destroy the Church in a few years. It is hollow and false and rotten through and through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...
Caesar Petrillo was not a graceful winner. The companies, he said, had resorted to "bitterness, injustice, trickery and reactionism which would do justice to slaveowners"; they had engaged in a "vile, indecent, malicious and filthy campaign of libel, slander and vilification." Crowed the Czar: "Honesty and fairness had now triumphed over falsity and fraud. ... If they, the companies, fail to change [their past course], the A.F.M. will not hesitate to break off relations and leave them to die by their own nefarious schemes...
Hague stumped the state. In a Donnybrook of bigotry, lying and slander, the new basic law was killed. Soldier ballots were...
...together, where Aimee preached beside the Sea of Galilee, visited the nightclubs of Paris, and together they had their faces lifted. There was Aimee's third marriage in 1931 to portly David Hutton, one of her choristers, and their divorce three years later. There was a suit for slander brought by daughter Roberta which cost Aimee $2,000, and another for $1,080,000 brought by Rheba Crawford Splivalo, Aimee's colleague at the Temple, which was settled out of court. But through all her trials Aimee kept her head high. Said she, "I only remember the hours...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 46, old-time sharpshooting, jail-breaking U.S. public enemy No. 1, now behind bars in Stateville (Ill.) on a 99-year-term for kidnapping, sued 20th Century-Fox for producing and distributing the film Roger Touhy, Gangster, Balaban & Katz for exhibiting it. Charges: libel, slander and violation of privacy. His bill for bad billing...