Word: libeller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Convict Burns was returned to Georgia, the wife who sent him there was implicitly condemned by the press for jealousy and revenge on the strength of Burns's story in the American. Last week Mrs. Burns, through Attorney Theodore William Miller of Chicago, filed libel suit against the American. Shrewd, she did not ask millions (as is usually the case ) for the destruction of an obscure reputation. She asked only $100,000, on the following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife...
...publishers, won some $450,000 in damages for libel...
...friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
...blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped its suit. President Macrae, however, reiterated his disapproval of such clubs, said his company would continue to submit no books to them...
...Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, contributed to the messiness of things Republican by charging that James Michael Curley, Democrat, had kept the religious issue alive during last year's campaign by "dastardly work"- circulating anti-Catholic literature. Last week Boss Curley sued Boss Liggett for civil and criminal libel...