Word: libeled
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...plight of Town Topics is ignominious compared to its flamboyant rascality of three decades ago, so is Editor Augustus Ralph Keller colorless, small-scale compared to the vivid colonel. Editor Keller is already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel. Col. Mann had the temerity to sue the late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed...
...clubs since the last week in November deals primarily with the law of agency and equity. The Scott Club will present the arguments for the plaintiff while the Lowell Club speakers will talk from the defendants' brief. The case involves a newspaper editor who was sued for libel, won the trial, and proceeded to demand recompensation from its owner for the costs of defending the newspaper...
...them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
Defendants Moskowitz and Rudikoff were charged with criminal libel. Denied was a motion to bring similar charges against the Manhattan & Bronx Laundry Owners' Association as distributors of the poster...
...peephole window marked "Subscriptions" through which a girl clerk told them no one was in. The raiders forced a door, found Editor Augustus Ralph Keller, a lean, sharp-featured, red-nosed little man with gold-rimmed spectacles. He was already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel brought by William Brown, vice president of Radio Corp. of America, to whom he allegedly tried to sell stock in Town Topics before printing an insinuating story (TIME, Feb. 2). With Editor Keller in the office were Robert A. Davison, president of American Social Registry Inc.* which publishes the magazine, a staff...