Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by thin-lipped John Saxton Sumner. As early as 1905 Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...
Collier's heyday lay roughly between 1905 and 1917, during the editorships of Norman Hapgood, Finley Peter Dunne and Mark Sullivan. ''Everyone'' read the magazine in those days of its rousing blasts against patent medicines, adulterated foods and adulterated politics. Those, too, were the days of the sensational libel suit brought by the late Col. William D'Alton Mann of Town Topics against the late Founder Peter F. Collier and Editor Hapgood (TIME...
...lost some old readers, gained more new ones. One such enterprise was a long series of reports on the effects of Prohibition, with the conclusion that the law was unenforceable. An-other was the expose of alleged graft in Hidalgo, Tex., which resulted in $1,000,000 worth of libel suits by Rentfro Banton Creager, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss (TIME. Sept. 16, 19291. Collier's won the first suit for $500,000; the second was withdrawn. Above all. Editor Chenery insisted that every feature interest every prospective reader. An article on cosmetics must be so written to interest...
...also made clear that Pastor Schoenfeld, who was known to trade in furs as a sideline to preaching, had been served with a warrant for possession of "illegal" furs, not for stealing. The truth of all this Pastor Schoenfeld did not contest, but nevertheless he filed a libel suit for $100,000, protesting the headline. A jury refused it. The pastor appealed...
Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a headline alone cannot be made the cause of a libel action unless it commits a complete libel in itself, and definitely identifies the libelled person. Otherwise, judgment must be based upon the entire article. Said the court: "Even assuming that [the headline] is susceptible of the meaning that some pastor at Park Falls had been named in a larceny warrant, there is nothing in these headlines to identify the plaintiff as being such pastor. It is well settled that defamatory words must refer to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that...