Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph's paramount position as an art expert is acknowledged by all but other experts. His latest public appearance was two months ago when he paid a reputed $100,000 to Mrs. Andree Harm of Kansas City, Mo. to settle out of court her libel suit for five times that amount. __ He had hindered her selling a picture to the Kansas City Art Museum by asserting that her picture which she believes is da Vinci's La Belle Ferronierc was a copy of an original in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18, 1928 ct scq.). Commented Art Digest...
...home delivery for 12¢ a week instead of 20¢. Newsdealers protested. The Evening News fought, was supported by its morning neighbor, the Call. The News printed a story stating that Newsdealers Protective Association had met to protest against the Ridders' business methods. The Ridders sued Publisher Haines for libel, asked...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...
Editor Brown pocketed the summons, to answer one Herbert T. Darling's $50,000 libel suit, no less distressed by his paper's breach of etiquet than by the fact that the "meanest" rider was not Mr. Darling but a man employed at the same address. Last week Taxi Weekly printed a lengthy retraction and apology, but despite the good-natured advice of the court, Mr. Darling continued his suit, which pends...
...victory over the Examiner was not the first, but the most lucrative of a series of libel suits begun last year by Mr. Dinwiddie against Hearstpapers for an "expose" printed in the spring...