Word: libellant
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...wife, two by his second, two stepchildren). He fought with the Marines in both World Wars. Between wars, he finished his undergraduate work at Yale (class of '21), stayed on to get a law degree, and, in 1926, settled down to practice in Philadelphia. He subsequently specialized in libel law. Among his clients: the Curtis Publishing Co., the Inquirer, N. W. Ayer...
...targets countered with a $25,000 libel suit. Sheriff Meehan, a triple-chinned 200-pounder who likes to gobble ice cream by the quart, called Dilworth "an old gossip...
Sued: Mrs. Lela Rogers, busy blonde mother of Cinemactress Ginger; for $2,000,000, by Playwright Emmet Lavery and Producer Martin Gosch, who charged libel and slander. Mrs. Rogers' remarks in a radio debate (with Lavery) on Communism in Hollywood, complained the suers, suggested that Lavery's play-to-be, The Gentleman from Athens, was un-American propaganda. One dismaying result, according to Gosch: five of the play's nine prospective backers suddenly backed...
...more mature. He had already been married once. His stepfather was Edward T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia socialite and financier. Jimmy had advanced ideas. He had thought up a "Synchronization Theory" which had something to do with the flow of money and goods. He also had ideas on birth control, libel laws, sterilization of defectives, boxing and politics...
Next day the men of M-G-M barred Miss Robertson from its previews, and asked BBC to silence a voice that it felt was "completely out of touch . . . unnecessarily harmful to the film industry." Critic-&-Author (Four Frightened People) Robertson promptly filed a libel and slander suit (TIME...