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...onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who has fought many a long and bitter campaign (against the Supreme Court packing plan, the $25,000 salary limit etc.), began another last month. He warned U.S. booksellers of probable libel suits if they handled a new book: pseudonymous Author John Roy Carlson's Under Cover, a history of Bundists, Kluxers and assorted nightshirters (see p. 97}. The book declares that the Committee for Constitutional Government, founded by Frank Gannett, had tie-ups with the fellow travelers of Fascism. The Chicago Tribune also began to attack the book...
Lean, acid, troublemaking Drew Pearson, famed Merry-Go-Round, keyhole columnist, got himself into a little more trouble than usual last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
...Last week's libel news: 1) Washington Times-Herald Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson withdrew her $250,000 suit against Columnist-Radio Commentator Walter Winchell, who had criticized a Times-Herald editorial. One reason: she had learned that "Winchell's contract with his radio sponsor . . . allows him to escape payment of any judgment that may be rendered against him. ..." 2) When New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief John O'Donnell's libel suit against Publisher J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record, which had called O'Donnell a "Naziphile," was tried several months...
Presumably because of the libel laws, Cross confines his harsher remarks about the House of Commons to anonymities. He noted: "One man who is alleged to have a discharge from an insane asylum, an M.P. who was tossed out of the Press Gallery for drunkenness, a fellow who once belonged to the Nazi party for some reason or other, and . . . the M.P. who is indebted to the Japanese for campaign funds...