Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Cannon has brought a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman Tinkham. Also awaiting trial are the Bishop's $6,000,000 libel actions against the Hearst newspapers and their publisher as a result of stories about his second marriage...
Jurywoman Mrs. Aileen Maguire, life-long friend of the Judge, cried out, "I refuse to sign any such libel! What's the use of impanelling a jury if it has no discretion?" Later she said that the jury had stood ten to two in favor of Mrs. Gavin...
...paper. In fact, he contracted to let 10% of his stock be without vote. What he wanted and got was the status of "special contributing editor," with the right to "insert as editorials anything that I think proper" without any censorship. He assumed personal responsibility for any libel suits he might cause, and the Journal-Post editors are entitled to dispute him in columns adjoining...
Thus, it was learned last week, pleaded counsel for Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. in asking dismissal of a $150,000 libel suit brought in Manhattan by Neil Callahan, onetime reporter for the New York Sun. Callahan claimed that he and his wife, whose name was Hester Robinson, were maliciously portrayed as "Ralph Halloran" and "Rebecca Robishek," leading characters in a book called Rebecca the Wise by Josef Israels II, codefendant...
...According to Editor & Publisher, tradepaper, the U. S. Marshal has never been able to serve Publisher Hearst in either of the Washington suits.) Also last week Bishop Cannon sued Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record but stated neither grounds nor damages. Also pending is a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who called the Bishop a "shameless violator of the Federal corrupt practices...