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Regular counsel for the Star is Watson, Gage, Ess, Groner & Barnett. Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring...
...content with merely expressing his opinion of the Star, Tycoon Doherty has his attorneys file a libel suit against it for $12,000,000 damages on six articles. The tenor of the challenged articles was that Mr. Doherty collects 1¾% of the gross revenue of his companies for his technical advice and management. In addition to denying this, Mr. Doherty claimed the articles had been printed to hurt his business in order that the Star's management might promote a competing pipeline. Publisher Longan retorted: "If it were true ... it would be no one's damned business...
Obviously autobiographical is Hot News although the exploits recounted are a composite of all Tabloidia. Probably for fear of libel. Author Gauvreau has veiled his characters with flimsy disguises which re quire no seasoned newsmen to penetrate. Himself, as protagonist, he calls Jonathan Peters, his tabloid, The Comet...
...that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman for libel...
...late Col. Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan libel lawyer: $1,215,318, to Cornell University of which he was a trustee and frequent benefactor (some $900.000), and to relatives and learned societies...