Word: libellant
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...close to realities in the East, it does not seem unlikely that China may in time unite with Japan against the West." Japan in Crisis by Dr. Harry Emerson Wildes (Macmillan, $2): "It is certainly a libel upon Japanese womanhood to say, as does the little red brochure bought by many tourists and entitled How the Social Evil is Regulated in Japan, that 'ten percent of the female population of all ages' is engaged in prostitution. But it is exceedingly significant that, with a press censorship as strict as that in Japan and as ready to suppress publications...
...Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
...with a $1 fine, but last week Judge Cutler, in high dudgeon, found Western Union guilty of contempt. Said he: "The company, in its desire to get revenue, has neglected to make rules governing messages of this nature to the courts. It is just as responsible to the libel laws as a newspaper." Deaf to Western Union's plea that as a common carrier it is obliged by law to send messages "without discrimination"* and that in any case it had not published the telegrams, he fined the company...
...rights with the country after your false statement, for which you have not a scintilla of fact, had presented him to the nation as an intemperate and im- proper person to be United States Judge. It would have been far better, Mr. Secretary, if you would retract your own libel of Judge Wilson and put your own house in order before intruding your unwelcome person into purely legislative matters. . . . You have the effrontery to tell me in the legislative branch how to conduct a fair hearing when you don't even know the definition of the word 'fairness...
...Harrison's Reports, cinema trade paper. Actually, the persons mentioned had not been indicted in Ontario but merely mentioned in an indictment brought against others. Harrison's Reports and The Churchman, which promptly published a retraction when it discovered its bad blunder, were sued for libel by Gabriel Hess, general counsel for the Hays organization. From the cinema paper this spring Mr. Hess won damages for $5,200. Last month a Supreme Court jury in Manhattan found Dr. Shipler and his fortnightly jointly guilty of libel, assessed them $10,000 for punitive damages, $200 for actual damages...