Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiction WARD EIGHT-Joseph F. Dinneen- Harper ($2.) Story of the rise, reign and death of an Irish political boss in Boston, written in a jerky, staccato style. The author is a Boston newspaperman who is now being threatened with suit for libel by Massachusetts' Governor James M. Curley...
...Novelist Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Gone With the Wind, Harry Slattery, South Carolina-born personal assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, was outraged to read of an offensive poor white named Tom Slattery, considered suing for libel. Promptly Novelist Mitchell announced she had named her Georgia farmer Slattery "purely by chance, intending no malice," sent Mr. Slattery an autographed copy of her book. Said he, appeased: "A charming, amusing, vivid young woman...
...against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where the Carter broadcasts originate; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. Inc., Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. and Columbia Broadcasting System...
...good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought and dropped by a hoodlum politician. During the War, Editor Pew worked in the War Department's News Bureau, where he originated the U. S. system of publishing casualty lists in full...
Second big yell went up when the Detroit Guild wired in that Wayne County's Prosecutor Duncan C. ("Dune") McCrea, long at outs with the Hearstian Detroit Times, was thinking of instituting a $100,000 libel suit against the paper for stating that he was a member of the terroristic Black Legion organization, and that if he did he would donate any proceeds from the suit to the Newspaper Guild to help fight for "underpaid Hearst employes...