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...Texas been through such a bitter personal campaign as followed the first primary a month ago when Mrs. Ferguson led eleven candidates but lacked a majority vote (TIME, Aug. 4). Husband Ferguson drew enormous crowds, set them wild with denunciation of Messrs. Moody and Sterling. Newspapers were given libel law waivers by Candidate Sterling to print anything Stumpster Ferguson said against him, but Mrs. Ferguson would not grant the Press the reciprocal privilege. Her husband, appealing to the "common folks at the fork of the creek," mocked and jibed at Candidate Sterling's handsome Bay Shore house, declared...
...long. Came a blast from Wodenist Ludendorff. He was not suing for divorce, he still loved his wife, still hated the Jews. What he had done was file a petition for dissolution of their financial partnership so that Frau von Ludendorff might be protected from the mounting pile of libel and damage suits registered against Volkswarte...
...Oscar Wilde's guilt, and the nature of it, there has never been much doubt since his disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, when the Poet too loudly claimed the Peer had fouled him. The name usually coupled with Oscar Wilde's is Lord Alfred ("Bosie") Douglas, unfilial son of the unpaternal Marquess. After Wilde's sentence and imprisonment in Reading Gaol he rejoined Douglas on the Continent, but the two erstwhile boon companions soon quarreled for the last time. When Wilde died squalidly in Paris (1900), "Bosie" was far away...
Abstemious Ramsay MacDonald demanded proofs, names. They were not forthcoming. The House, greatly relieved, voted 304 to 13 that Elijah Sandham, member for Kirkdale, Liverpool, had been "guilty of a breach of privilege and a gross libel upon the House," merited an official censure...
Innocently, the Herald & Examiner replied next day: "No such suggestion . . . appeared in the editorial, and the astonishing thought came practically out of the blue. Perhaps ... it will be made clear by Mr. Lee when and if he takes the witness stand to press his libel action?if it is ever pressed...