Word: libellant
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Jurywoman Mrs. Aileen Maguire, life-long friend of the Judge, cried out, "I refuse to sign any such libel! What's the use of impanelling a jury if it has no discretion?" Later she said that the jury had stood ten to two in favor of Mrs. Gavin...
Thus, it was learned last week, pleaded counsel for Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. in asking dismissal of a $150,000 libel suit brought in Manhattan by Neil Callahan, onetime reporter for the New York Sun. Callahan claimed that he and his wife, whose name was Hester Robinson, were maliciously portrayed as "Ralph Halloran" and "Rebecca Robishek," leading characters in a book called Rebecca the Wise by Josef Israels II, codefendant...
...letter to Publisher George Gilray Young of the Los Angeles Examiner, William Randolph Hearst once (warningly) described Bishop James Cannon Jr. as having "the best brain in America, no one excepted." Last week Best Brain Cannon filed his third libel suit against Publisher Hearst and his newspapers, bringing the total damages demanded...
...According to Editor & Publisher, tradepaper, the U. S. Marshal has never been able to serve Publisher Hearst in either of the Washington suits.) Also last week Bishop Cannon sued Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record but stated neither grounds nor damages. Also pending is a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who called the Bishop a "shameless violator of the Federal corrupt practices...
...other aspects of Cities Service's fight in Kansas: a defense against Governor Woodring's campaign to knock 10? off the Company's 40?-per-1000 cu. ft. gas rate; an attack upon the Kansas City Star, from which Tycoon Doherty is demanding $12,000,000 libel damages as the price of inspiring Governor Woodring's rate...