Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the City chuckled at the plight of William Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
Mirthfully convinced, Hon. Mr. Justice Branson dismissed the libel, ordered Broker Blennerhassett to pay costs, including the fat fee of suave Sir Patrick Hastings...
...Jack in 1921 decided that he had not been sufficiently taken care of. He printed and circulated a pamphlet entitled "The Downfall of Horatio Bottomley." This was followed by a second number, "What Horatio Bottomley Has Done for His Country." which contained 24 blank pages. Horatio Bottomley sued for libel, lost, and inadvertently gave away the whole story of the War and Victory loan lotteries. He was tried in 1922 on the specific charge of misappropriating ?5,000. Prosecution brought out that not only were many prizewinners Bottomley friends, but of the ?493,000 handled in the loan lotteries only...
That was more than Hugh Herndon, now a hardworking oil salesman for Henry Latham Doherty, cared to stomach. Last week he sued Liberty for $250,000 libel, prepared to prove that he had organized the flight purely as a sporting proposition, that he was a qualified flyer, that he was at the controls about 40% of the time on the world flight and charted all courses, that he claimed no undue credit, that the last contract with Pilot Pangborn was signed six weeks before the take-off on terms agreed to long before...
...Hays, sued for $250,000. Defense lawyers insisted that the American's caption meant only that the wrestler was as strong as a gorilla. But Wrestler Zbyszko was able to show that his wife had learned to call him "gorilla" as a term of contempt. The jury found libel, awarded...