Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rawson not only protested that she is not dead but sued her former spouse for libel, lost the suit, was sternly told by the Court that in England a wife cannot sue her husband on any ground except one involving the security of finer property. Against such and other "tyrannies of the male," the I. C. W. at Havana fulminated for a week, drafted petitions, went home...
Last week, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...
William Crapo Durant sued the New York Telegram and eight other newspapers and news services for $45,000,000, the biggest libel action ever based on one story. The publications had carried a story which he interpreted as connecting him with shady stock deals resulting in heavy market losses to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hudson...
...shaken sense of its own civic virtue. While the other cities of the Republic smile with relief that the black spot has been presented to the Hub and not to them, the local city fathers run about distractedly hiding this and that issuing arrest warrants for authors, and crying libel before the public. It is a rather dreadful spectacle...
...Sued for Libel. Collier's Weekly; by onetime District Prohibition Administrator F. H. McLenahan; at Denver. The charge: that "false and derogatory" statements were made about him in the Dec. 28, 1928, issue of the magazine. His demand: $100,000 damages. The article, "Sugar Moon," said that 2,000 bootleggers thrive in Denver, sell whiskey made from sugar beets...