Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
...peephole window marked "Subscriptions" through which a girl clerk told them no one was in. The raiders forced a door, found Editor Augustus Ralph Keller, a lean, sharp-featured, red-nosed little man with gold-rimmed spectacles. He was already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel brought by William Brown, vice president of Radio Corp. of America, to whom he allegedly tried to sell stock in Town Topics before printing an insinuating story (TIME, Feb. 2). With Editor Keller in the office were Robert A. Davison, president of American Social Registry Inc.* which publishes the magazine, a staff...
...Earl of Harewood, son-in-law of George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay ?16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years...
Meanwhile in Manhattan a magistrate dismissed a charge of libel filed in their own behalf by eccentric Stanley Faithfull & wife, parents of the late Starr Faithfull (TIME, June 29), against Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson and Reporter Sidney Sutherland of the tabloid Dally News. But the court did find evidence that the memory of Starr Faithfull had been libeled, offered to hear testimony...
...White House. President Roosevelt, primed, recognized the new order with ''indecent and unwise haste." When the Indianapolis News, backed by the New York World suggested that some of the $40,000,000 to be paid to French stockholders had gone elsewhere Roosevelt, white with rage, started his absurd libel suit under an act "to protect the harbor defenses . . . used by the U. S. from malicious injury." Pride in the canal later caused Roosevelt to declare: "I took Panama and let Congress debate." The virulent hatred of Roosevelt for Woodrow Wilson grew out of the fact that the Democratic President...