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This message was probably lost upon the listeners of the class of '97, who were more interested in the scathing libel which preceded it. Today the appeal his a cruel significance. The Fence-bond has not survived the forty years since this appeal was made...
...founded another. When that went bankrupt, he started a third. His Jamaica newspaper, The Blackman, and his Edelweiss* Amusement Corp. (vaudeville, cinemas and an amusement park) did better, until last year when they, too, went broke, but not before Marcus Garvey had been jailed again for seditious libel in The Blackman. When he grew tired of the small arena of Jamaica politics and planned to go back to the U. S., Harlem Negroes hastily dug up more evidence of fraud and gave it to the police. From Jamaica he tried to run a lottery among U. S. Negroes...
...supreme courts. When Depression hit Medford, Editor Banks found himself in hot water. The delusions of grandeur gave way to delusions of persecution. Suits for foreclosures, taxes, wages, payments of all sorts piled up until he faced bankruptcy. He even lost the News to its former owner by foreclosure. Libel suits aggregating $300,000 he staved off by charging judges with prejudice. Then Editor Banks organized a "Good Government Congress" of 5,000 or 6,000 followers, dedicated to ousting practically all State and county officials, dissolving the Bar Association, defying the courts. The "Congress" incited a boycott against...
...Colonel. For years newspaper feature-writers have refrained from writing Edward Riley Bradley's biography, partly because the Colonel is notoriously secretive about his past, but chiefly because the mere mention of his occupation amounts to libel in most states. Colonel Bradley is a gambler and has been for some 50 of his 75 years. Colonel Bradley himself stilled apprehensive editors' anxieties at the Senate hearing last month when he frankly admitted that his business was that of a "speculator, raiser of race horses and gambler." "I'd gamble on anything," he added...
...complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy, who may have learned the rudiments of art from recruiting posters, was notified of the libel. It is not likely that the weary farm mothers of Kansas and Idaho, upon whose sons the Navy depends for its enlisted personnel, would ever see the picture, and even if they did, it would be only an expression of something that they firmly believe. But the Secretary took no chances...