Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iniquity. As a damyankee of many generations standing, I cannot be accused of rushing to the defense of my native State. But by profession trained to accurate observation and impartial reporting, and speaking from six years' intimate familiarity with Jefferson County, I can say that a more contemptible libel has never been uttered about any community...
...gave it to the nation as a hot weather sensation. With the mystery of the girl's death still unsolved, the story eventually collapsed. But newspaper publishers had not heard the last of Starr Faithfull. Her stepfather, Stanley Faithfull. lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered and eccentric, started libel actions against every newspaper in Manhattan...
Father Faithfull began with criminal actions alleging libel against himself and against the memory of his dead daughter, tried to have Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News arrested, but a magistrate refused to issue a warrant. Last month the first of these went to trial against the News. Father Faithfull asked $350,000 damages because, he claimed: 1) the News had intimated that he murdered his daughter; 2) the News had said he concealed evidence in the case, hampering the authorities; 3) the News had said he and his wife lived on his late daughter...
...trial went on for more than three weeks. Last week a Staten Island jury found the New York Daily News innocent of libel...
...daughter Louise. Thrice married, Louise was the onetime wife of General Douglas MacArthur, is now the wife of Actor Lionel Atwill. For saying that Step-father-in-law Stotesbury pulled Republican wires to get General MacArthur promoted, the Washington Merry-Go-Round gossip column was sued for libel. The General later dropped the suit (TIME...