Word: libeling
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Retraction. Of the Press's many defense weapons against libel suits, Retraction is only one. Rarely offered in court as a complete defense, it often serves to reduce damages, both compensatory and punitive.* Last week the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court took from Retraction much of its potency, by ruling that it could not be accepted in mitigation of compensatory damages. In so ruling the court upheld the appeal of William H. Kehoe from a verdict of 6? damages against the New York Herald Tribune.†He had sued for a compensatory...
...Rolla, Mo., last winter, Rev. Paul Bennett, young savior, distributed handbills accusing Teacher Olive Warren of "smoking and helping a man drink a bottle of whiskey." Last week a jury of farmers retired to decide whether or not Teacher Warren had been libeled. "Smoking and drinking by modern women," counsel for Mr. Bennett told them, "is an established custom. It therefore is not libel to say a woman does something which custom makes perfectly proper for her to do." Teacher Warren's lawyers, however, stated that she never drank or smoked, that "she didn't think nice women...
...founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair's furnace at Helicon Hall, dropped the Harry from his full name (Harry Sinclair Lewis), later quarreled with Author Sinclair. Author Sinclair's books have been translated into many foreign languages...
...Rawson not only protested that she is not dead but sued her former spouse for libel, lost the suit, was sternly told by the Court that in England a wife cannot sue her husband on any ground except one involving the security of finer property. Against such and other "tyrannies of the male," the I. C. W. at Havana fulminated for a week, drafted petitions, went home...
Last week, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...