Word: libellant
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Rightdoers in Great Britain are protected from newspaper libel by laws far more drastic than any similar U. S. statute. Last week Manhattan's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes won heavy compensation from the London Sunday Express which had erroneously reported the Cardinal to have said that the late assassinated Irish Free State Minister of Justice Kevin O'Higgins was "an English hireling...
...Divorced. fMr. McAndrew, able, no stool pigeon, has sued Mayor Thompson for libel...
...chance was unaware that the New York Times, pillar of respectability, printed all the news that's fit to print and not another line, if he had the insolence to name the Times or any other "great newspaper,"-well, he would find out what a libel suit was like. "Produce," wrote Publisher Ochs,† "a single example of a 'great newspaper' which is subservient to advertisers . . . name newspaper and owner." Name, if he dare, the New York Times. Name Adolph S. Ochs...
Died. George A. Newett, 72, publisher of Iron Ore; at Ishpeming, Mich., after a long illness. In 1913 the late President Theodore Roosevelt sued him for libel, for having described the Roosevelt julep bed, and accused him of intemperance. Editor Newett lost the $10,000 suit, was fined...
...over the Senate chamber while his colleagues are sitting brings Senator Caraway close to more colleagues on both sides of the aisle than he could inspect if he sat like them at a desk. Yet none knew better than Senator Caraway the difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News-for he is a militant Prohibitionist, though no hypocrite-Senator Caraway challenged the News to publish some names. There the matter rested. No names ap peared, Ohio...