Word: libeler
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Monsieur Henri Beraud is apparently unwilling to let an old tradition die. Instead of trusting a ponderous and modern law of libel to crash his annoying critics into silence he has polished up his grandfather's rapier, frothed slightly at the mouth, and challenged them en masse to a duel in the true Dumas style. As yet there are no indications that the editors who objected to Monsieur Beraud's new novel have entered into the spirit of the occasion by sending their seconds...
...from the Countess of Bathurst, who inherited it in 1908 and ran it until now. Under her, the Morning Post became famous for the impartiality of its news and for the poisonous sting of its editorials. It was rumored that a lawyer was employed to keep its editorials from libel. The paper has always been "the friend of the labouring man and the enemy of Labour." At Liberals it jeers...
Meantime Mr. Vanderlip's attorneys prepared and filed his answer to a $600,000 suit for libel and slander which the owners of the Marion Star had instituted against him on the allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing...
Born. To Dr. Marie Stopes, famed British birth control propagandist, and H. V. Roe, pioneer aviator, a son. Dr. Stopes is editor of The Birth Control News and is author of Married Love, a volume which was the subject of a libel suit last year...
...William Randolph Hearst secured an apology from The New York World for saying that he was understood to be the publisher to whom President Harding had referred as saying one thing in private conversation and another thing in his paper. Not content with one apology, Mr. Hearst brought libel suit in England and secured an apology for the same remark from the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and the Continental Daily Mail. Having produced a letter from the late President showing the assertion to be false, Mr. Hearst magnanimously accepted an apology and an arrangement for the costs, gave the "story...