Word: libellant
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...Racing Commission cited irregularities at Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett Park race track, ordered Mr. O'Hara removed from control. Mr. O'Hara countered with an amazing denunciation in the Star-Tribune of the Governor and all his works. The Governor swore out a criminal libel warrant against Mr. O'Hara, and later when Mr. O'Hara refused to surrender the management of the track, sent 300 militiamen to close Narragansett Park. In rapid succession Mr. O'Hara was indicted by a Federal grand jury for excessive political contributions, was warned...
...give general creditors 20? on the dollar. Well Mr. Stern knew the property he sought, for he was general manager of its ancestor, the News, 25 years ago, but he withdrew his oral offer last week after discovering the Sterns might have on their hands a batch of the libel suits pending against the paper, the result of Mr. O'Hara's bitter political feud. The court will protect this week's successful bidder from past libel claims...
...story of America's blackest journalistic episode-a Chicago circulation war which cradled gangsterism over 30 years ago-has never been documented so damningly as it apparently was last week in Author Burton Rascoe's answer to the $250,000 libel suit filed against him and Doubleday, Doran & Co. in July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live...
...charity will go an unnamed sum received by the Duke of Windsor in settlement of the libel suit he had brought against Publisher William Heinemann and Author Geoffrey Dennis, whose Coronation Commentary, the Duke's attorney said, had "repeated the rumor that the lady who is now the plaintiff's wife occupied before his marriage to her the position of his mistress." Announcing settlement of the suit, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, suggested that the Duke might "almost" be justified in laying upon Author Dennis a "thoroughly efficacious horsewhip...
...Pictures of Travel) appeared, a bookful of prose sketches and verses on the German scene. Fame did nothing to soften his contrariety. An increasing bitterness crept into his writings; his attacks on German bigwigs, literary and political, grew sharper and more open. A subsequent volume brought denunciations, threats of libel suits. The next was proscribed throughout Germany. Heine, one jump ahead of the police, fled to Paris...