Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abstemious Ramsay MacDonald demanded proofs, names. They were not forthcoming. The House, greatly relieved, voted 304 to 13 that Elijah Sandham, member for Kirkdale, Liverpool, had been "guilty of a breach of privilege and a gross libel upon the House," merited an official censure...
...traditional bitterness between the Tribune and the Hearst papers (American and Herald & Examiner), intensified by recent occurrences, led to the filing of a $250.000 libel suit against the Herald & Examiner. Fortnight ago the Tribune disclosed that City Editor Harry Read of the American had been a Florida guest of Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. The Tribune was also first to introduce the name of Ted Tod, Herald & Examiner crime reporter, as press-agent for a dog race track controlled by gang interests...
City Editor Lee promptly filed notice of a $250,000 libel suit, charged that the editorial implied he knew of Lingle's $60,000-a-year underworld operations...
Innocently, the Herald & Examiner replied next day: "No such suggestion . . . appeared in the editorial, and the astonishing thought came practically out of the blue. Perhaps ... it will be made clear by Mr. Lee when and if he takes the witness stand to press his libel action?if it is ever pressed...
...your issue of July 7 you were kind enough to carry a story concerning the Darling libel suit against The Taxi Weekly. In the centre, surrounded by the story, you carried a picture supposedly of myself. I have received so many favorable comments my concerning my "aggressive fighting improved face'' good that I looks, as think well it is as only fair to you that I send you for future use a photograph of myself instead of my double. The photograph that you ran, I believe, is that of Mr. Innis Brown, managing editor of The American Golfer...