Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferdinand Lundberg, belligerent young author of America's 60 Families, and Vanguard Press, his publisher, were sued last week for $150,000 libel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Reason for the suit was not that Author Lundberg placed the Du Ponts ninth among his 60 families, but that he gave the Du Pont Company as the correct answer to the question which appeared in the book's advertisements: "What industrial corporation engaged in war work was charged by the U. S. Government with billing it $75 for the burial of each of its employes...
Radio's glibbest cinemagpie is Jimmy Fidler, whose broadcasts of Hollywood gossip are sponsored by Procter & Gamble Co. (Drene Shampoo). Last week Cinemactress Constance Bennett de la Falaise de la Coudraye sued Fidler, sponsor, et al. for libel, asking $250,000 damages. Flip Fidlerism: that Connie had snubbed Comedienne Patsy Kelly on a Hal Roach set; that studio workmen, Patsy's pals, bought flowers for her, none for Connie...
...Racing Commission cited irregularities at Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett Park race track, ordered Mr. O'Hara removed from control. Mr. O'Hara countered with an amazing denunciation in the Star-Tribune of the Governor and all his works. The Governor swore out a criminal libel warrant against Mr. O'Hara, and later when Mr. O'Hara refused to surrender the management of the track, sent 300 militiamen to close Narragansett Park. In rapid succession Mr. O'Hara was indicted by a Federal grand jury for excessive political contributions, was warned...
...give general creditors 20? on the dollar. Well Mr. Stern knew the property he sought, for he was general manager of its ancestor, the News, 25 years ago, but he withdrew his oral offer last week after discovering the Sterns might have on their hands a batch of the libel suits pending against the paper, the result of Mr. O'Hara's bitter political feud. The court will protect this week's successful bidder from past libel claims...
...story of America's blackest journalistic episode-a Chicago circulation war which cradled gangsterism over 30 years ago-has never been documented so damningly as it apparently was last week in Author Burton Rascoe's answer to the $250,000 libel suit filed against him and Doubleday, Doran & Co. in July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live...