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...Senator Carter Glass concerning branch banking. To the committee, Mr. Barry quoted the Senator in his own defense: "'. . . They hired some Congressmen, to my positive and documentary knowledge, to oppose even that small measure of branch banking.'" Meanwhile, Senator Walsh of Montana suggested that criminal libel proceedings be started against the New Outlook...
There were rascally chapters in "Bon" Bonfils history, passages which lawyers for his enemy, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, promised to prove in the libel suit (Bonfils v. News) that was pending when Death came. According to those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died...
...showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State Castle praising Washington correspondents. But the Press found no news in a $54,200 libel verdict against William...
...appealed. The Doherty companies regarded the verdict as a complete victory and their bearded chief and Mrs. Doherty went off on a trip through central Florida with Carl Byoir, his able publicist. Still awaiting trial is Mr. Doherty's answer to his severest critic: a $12,000,000 libel suit against the Kansas City Star...
...bitter article about Sun Life's 72-year-old President Thomas Bassett Macaulay, in which President Macaulay was described as an Insull conspirator, likened to the late Ivar Kreuger, called "one of the world's greatest crooks, a colossal liar, and a swindler." President Macaulay sued for libel (TIME, Oct. 24). Publisher Harpell's usual lawyers would not handle the case for him. At first he harped bitterly on this handicap as he pleaded his own defense. Then a lawyer named Calizte Cormier pleaded that Publisher Harpell had done great services to insurance companies, that Sun Life...