Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RHODE ISLAND: The Providence County Jury refused to bring an indictment against newspaper men charged with libel by former Governor Robert L. Beeckman. One headline quoted was: "Beekman and his tool caught in open bribery with payment of $1,500 to Democrat...
...bill only nine lines long was introduced in the House of Commons by a Labor member. The object is to stop criminal proceedings in the British Isles for " schism, heresy, blasphemy, blasphemous libel, or atheism...
...Marie Carmichael Stopes, authoress of Married Love and Wise Parenthood, lost her libel suit against Dr. H. G. Sutherland, who accused her of "experimenting on poor women." The Lord Chief Justice set aside the verdict of the jury awarding her ?100 damages, stating that no evidence had been presented showing that the accusations made by Dr. Sutherland were founded upon ill will. He summed up Dr. Stopes' birth control activities as "a monstrous campaign." The learned Judge's opinion is not likely to be popular in London, where Dr. Stopes is believed to have done considerable good...
...York Nation" comments editorially on the case of Professor James McKeen Cattell of Columbia University, who was dismissed in 1917 "without proper charges or heating, accused of 'sedition, treason, and opposition to the enforcement of the law of the United States'" Subsequently, he sued the trustees for libel and demanded the pension to which he was nominally untitled. An award of 245,000 was recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether in 1917 the jury would have awarded the verdict in the man's favour, despite the justice of his cause. "But," concludes the comment, "times...
...bureau and condemns the army vocational schools, in some of which, he states, the disabled ex-service men have been placed "under conditions that are criminal and relating to slavery." In replay to these charges, two of the institutions specifically mentioned by Col. Forbes are already threatening suit for libel unless he retracts...