Word: libeller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While other Germans gibbered outside, Dr. Schacht quietly entered the court by a back door, appeared as the plaintiff in a suit for libel against one Herr Roll, president of the Reichsbank Creditors' Association. Dr. Schacht complained that Herr Roll had libelously defamed him in a public speech as "the hangman of German industry . . . no cheat but a swindler...
...Herr Roll's association. "Pay us! Pay us, Schacht! We want 1,000 gold marks for every one of these!" They waved their now worthless pre-War 1,000 paper mark notes. Eventually police reserves arrived, quelled the disorder, made possible the continuance of Dr. Schacht's libel suit...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
...Wright was quietly expelled from the Bath Club. Last week he sued for damages. After deliberating for an hour and a half, the jury awarded him ?100 ($500) "for loss of club amenities" and ?25 ($125) for injury to his reputation. Triumphant, Captain Wright at once filed suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone...
...hard to reconcile with critics' assertions that Scotland Yard experts have declared the fingerprints on various da Vinci replicas to be identical with those on originals; that two major continental galleries- the Louvre of Paris, the Prado in Madrid-have simultaneously exhibited a Mona Lisa. Suit for libel was entered against Sir Joseph...