Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dust settled from the Manhattan opening of the new Frick Art Reference Library fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 21) than the donor found herself last week deeply involved in hot and noisy litigation. James Howard Bridge, a white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator of her father...
...PORTLAND OREGONIAN'S DAILY CIRCULATION IS NOT 92,500, BUT OVER 104,000 AND INCREASING: AND WHEN YOU SAY I LOOK ''SOMETHING LIKE A PELICAN" YOU GROSSLY LIBEL THAT MASTERPIECE OF NATURE...
...puffing cigarets in a long ivory holder. Few blocks away in Room 620 of the Willard Hotel sat Columnist Drew Pearson (Washington Merry-Go-Round) and his lawyer. In Room 415 was General MacArthur's lawyer. Thus was the stage set for settlement of the $1,750,000 libel suit filed by the General last summer against Columnists Pearson & Robert S. Allen for picturing him as a swaggering, supersensitive strutter who pulled social and political wires to advance himself in the service (TIME, May 28). Co-defendants were United Feature Syndicate which distributed the Merry-Go-Round, and Hearst...
...have been told that the book includes certain definitely described attacks on me which, if made, would be untrue, maliciously libelous and designed wholly for the purpose of doing me harm. . . . Many of the charges which General Johnson has loosely made in private conversation regarding me and my activities can be completely disproved. . . . I simply desire to notify you that if you take the responsibility for publishing the statements by General Johnson . . . you must accept the full legal responsibility for taking such action without any adequate effort to assure yourself of the truth of the libel...
Newshawks found General Johnson visiting his mother in Okmulgee, Okla. Snorted he: "Donald is a high official. If he thinks there is libel in this narration, why doesn't he stand on his legal rights in a suit for libel and not attempt to use his position to threaten the freedom of the Press...