Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful...
...write in the blunt Saxon tongue" will climb to the top. City Editor Walker pays a rare tribute to "The Man With the Green Eyeshade" -the underpaid, unappreciated copyreader, who cuts the purple prose out of the reporter's copy, corrects his spelling, keeps the paper out of libel suits. He salutes the energy and courage of photographers, deplores the sneering superiority of reporters...
Same day Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas cabled his Ambassador in Washington instructions to sue the U. S. Government for reparations for besmirching Argentinians' reputations. Holding that the U. S. Government was responsible for the actions of the Senate committee, he purported to show that a libel had been committed and "moral & mental damage" inflicted. In effect, he demanded that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull discipline Washington's Senator Homer T. Bone for speaking carelessly of Argentina's Admiral Ismael Galindez. Protesting "our friendship for that great nation with which we have recently strengthened...
Motoring through Beaconsfield, England, Manhattan's clever Lawyer Fanny Holtzmann careened into a telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Felix were guests of honor at a bright little dinner party to which were invited Gertrude Lawrence, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker. The dinner was to celebrate an occasion. The Princess had just received from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. a check for the largest libel settlement ever made. Though only four people in the world supposedly knew the exact amount, good guessers put it in the neighborhood...