Word: libeller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Ziegfeld's Follies chorines have gone to grand opera (Mary Lewis), a title (Jessica Brown, Countess of Northesk), "the dogs" (libel law prohibits names), the drama (Ina Claire). Few return. An exception is La Claire, whom many regard as the most pleasing U. S. actress. She contracted last week to star for Ziegfeld's fall musical piece, Nell Gwynne...
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...