Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charity will go an unnamed sum received by the Duke of Windsor in settlement of the libel suit he had brought against Publisher William Heinemann and Author Geoffrey Dennis, whose Coronation Commentary, the Duke's attorney said, had "repeated the rumor that the lady who is now the plaintiff's wife occupied before his marriage to her the position of his mistress." Announcing settlement of the suit, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, suggested that the Duke might "almost" be justified in laying upon Author Dennis a "thoroughly efficacious horsewhip...
...have called off my libel suit. It suddenly struck me that you might prove what you said to the embarrassment of somebody...
...Pictures of Travel) appeared, a bookful of prose sketches and verses on the German scene. Fame did nothing to soften his contrariety. An increasing bitterness crept into his writings; his attacks on German bigwigs, literary and political, grew sharper and more open. A subsequent volume brought denunciations, threats of libel suits. The next was proscribed throughout Germany. Heine, one jump ahead of the police, fled to Paris...
...these two men and the question whether either or both of them was at Harvard can have nothing to with my opinions about the legal merits of the Governor's proclamation of martial law and about the unfairness of his midnight arrest of Mr. O'Hara in a private libel action for damages of astronomical proportions...
...Horse Racing, charging numerous irregularities in the conduct of Narragansett Park's approximately $4,000,000 yearly business, ordered the track to oust Major Stockholder O'Hara as managing director. The Star-Tribune reacted so violently to this news that Publisher O'Hara was arrested for libel on the complaint of Governor Quinn, whom the paper called a "- -* liar." Out on bail, Walter O'Hara went straight back to his penthouse atop the Narragansett clubhouse, where he was shortly greeted by a racing division order suspending Narragansett's license (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante). Since...