Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted to all the courts despite their amateur standing but the great majority of cases are settled without resorting to legal action. Even more important is the advice which the members are ready to give students who may be involved in any number of cases ranging from divorce to libel...
Said Mr. Simpson when told of the pamphlet in London: "I'm glad to know of it. Good cause for a libel action, what? Of course my wife didn't write...
...close to realities in the East, it does not seem unlikely that China may in time unite with Japan against the West." Japan in Crisis by Dr. Harry Emerson Wildes (Macmillan, $2): "It is certainly a libel upon Japanese womanhood to say, as does the little red brochure bought by many tourists and entitled How the Social Evil is Regulated in Japan, that 'ten percent of the female population of all ages' is engaged in prostitution. But it is exceedingly significant that, with a press censorship as strict as that in Japan and as ready to suppress publications...
...Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
...with a $1 fine, but last week Judge Cutler, in high dudgeon, found Western Union guilty of contempt. Said he: "The company, in its desire to get revenue, has neglected to make rules governing messages of this nature to the courts. It is just as responsible to the libel laws as a newspaper." Deaf to Western Union's plea that as a common carrier it is obliged by law to send messages "without discrimination"* and that in any case it had not published the telegrams, he fined the company...