Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly magazine published with a slender circulation in Oklahoma and other States in the Mid-West has made a bid for subscriptions by one of its numerous resorts to yellow journalism. "In its issue of July 17, 1933, TIME went out of its way to libel and defame the name and reputation of Charles N. Haskell, the first state governor of Oklahoma. As a delegate to the constitutional convention, as a governor of the State and as one of its delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder...
...Only recently an Eastern magazine defamed the character of a famous Oklahoman and paid off in damages after being sued for libel. This however, is not a sufficient nor fining rebuke for the crime of malicious defamation upon the name of the dead. It has been truly said that the only defense a private citizen, or even a public official has against a scurrilous yellow newspaper or magazine is the double-barrelled shotgun but unfortunately its use is a violation of the law and in this particular case the heart of the man who should use it had been forever...
That item, buried away on the legal record page of the Washington Post last week, was the only news given capital citizens of the fact that William Randolph Hearst had again been trounced in a libel suit by Frank E. Bonner, onetime executive secretary of the Federal Power Commission. The Washington case was second in a list of actions against 14 Hearstpapers resulting from their syndicated attack three years ago upon Bonner and another Power Commission employe named Frank Warren Griffith as minions of "the Power Trust" (TIME...
...Boston, where five months ago Hearst's American was ordered to pay $50,000 to Bonner, $4,200 to Griffith, the Washington newspapers loyally obeyed their unwritten law to ignore libel suits involving each other. In one particular, however, Hearst's Washington Herald broke the rule. When five of Plaintiff Griffith's nine counts were dismissed (he collected $250 each on the other four), the Herald blithely headlined...
With the score $100,200 against "Power Trust"-hating Mr. Hearst, Lawyer Hogan & Co. prepared to march on to Los Angeles in September for the next trial in their chain libel action...