Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties...
Meanwhile in Britain where it takes much less impudence by the Press to stir up much more trouble than in the U. S., the tall, hard-living Duke of Westminster last week started a libel suit against his 26-year-old niece, Lady Sibell Lygon, and Editor W. G. A. Wayte of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Owner of 600 acres on London's fashionable West End, the Duke of Westminster has an income of $1,225,000 a year out of which he pays $50,000 in alimony to the two wives who divorced him for adultery...
Newsreaders who wonder at all about Gossipmonger Walter Winchell, wonder why they never read of his being sued for libel. The prime reason is the unwritten law of U. S. journalism, which restrains newspapers from airing each other's libel troubles. Another and more astonishing reason is that only three suits, of which two have not yet reached court, have ever been pressed against Columnist Winchell. Last week, for the first time in his professional career, he found himself confronted by a jury verdict for damages. It was caused not by any peeping into the love lives...
...first time, became Commander-in-chief in 1917. After his triumphal return, there were whispers that he sacrificed his men in a vainglorious desire to have the Canadians fire the last shot on Armistice Day. When a newspaper printed the story he sued, obtained a $500 libel verdict...
...Government is a sacred thing," cried the Court, barring his evidence. ''The greater the truth, the greater the libel." Darrow-like, Lawyer Hamilton turned to the jury. When he had finished talking to them they were convinced that the Press should be free to speak its mind about government officials within the limits of decency and truth. They set an historic precedent by adjudging John Peter Zenger not guilty...