Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful Hearst city editor, inventing a newspaper game in which players use pictures of people, would surely include a flattering photo of Miss Marion Davies. In the instructions would be warnings on the law of libel. And in the game, news items would stress crime, sensationalism...
...River. For reasons of their own, Pawtucket politicians had insisted on building the new City Hall on a low-lying lot, and they did not want their location photographed with water creeping over it. Also in March, Walter O'Hara sued the Journal for $1,000,000 for libel because it intimated that he was working in collusion with Pawtucket officials to sell that city a bargain-bought textile mill to use as a power plant. Shortly afterward, Democratic State Representatives scowled at the Journal by passing a measure calling for the investigation of its tax payments...
Free again and having his day in court, Plaintiff Parker began to develop a line of legal reasoning in the libel case which was exquisitely embarrassing to the Tribune. According to Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment...
Because Parker says "The Tribune has ruined me and my family," and has announced that he would kill the Tribune's publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford ("Ber-tie") McCormick "if he libels me again," the newspaper's lawyers were loath to produce their principal in court. When Plaintiff Parker insisted on having Publisher McCormick as witness, Process Server J. C. Justice was dispatched to inform Col. McCormick that his presence was required. Mr. Justice got nowhere against the Colonel's buffers, but when he was about to describe his experiences in court, defense counsel suddenly produced Col. McCormick...
...Libel-of-the-year, the unfortunate color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton advertising Camel cigarets (TIME, Jan. 18) was completely settled last month when, after winning a $2,500 verdict against Crowell Publishing Co., Mr. Burton accepted $22,500 to square accounts with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., its advertising agency and all publications against which suits have been brought. Still pending, however, was Jockey Burton's $50,000 action against Funnyman Eddie Davis of a Manhattan night club for using a reproduction of the picture in a ribald Christmas card...