Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avco occurred in quick succession. E. F. Hutton & Co., Cord supporters, published a booklet in which President Cohu's name appeared above an Avco balance sheet showing $20,000,000 losses since 1929. Mr. Cohu, who has been president for only six months, started a $1,000,000 libel suit. Also, Avco got and published a letter from President William Green of the A. F. of L. Excerpts: "We are thoroughly convinced that Mr. Cord is hostile to union labor. ... If [he] secures control . . . it will be the purpose of the A. F. of L. to call the attention...
...present regime (probably Harriman, Lehman, Cohu, Sherman Fairchild, one other); five will be Cord men (Cord, Manning, Vanderlip, two others). Five will be "independent prominent men mutually agreed upon. . . ." The deal had to be ratified by the December stockholders' meeting. Meanwhile the proxy fight was off. So was the libel suit. Hutton & Co. retracted...
Those statements, and many another, were part of a News petition asking that Publisher Bonfils be adjudged in contempt of court. Reason: He had refused to answer questions-before-trial in his own libel suit against the News...
...Famed cases: representing four Manhattan banks v. the Insull utility companies (lost, appealed, won), the children of the late Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter) to remove Joseph Leiter as trustee of Levi Leiter's estate (lost), the Chicago Tribune v. Henry Ford in Ford's suit for libel (award...
...Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...