Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...
Used to seeing and deciphering typographical errors, few newspaper readers know precisely how they come about. Characteristic mistakes in news texts are transposition ("amy" for "may," "ear" for "era") and substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...
...established it in Manhattan in 1845 "to assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation in most large Negro centres) and stopped at nothing. Violence and threats of libel alike failed to stop the editors. The Gazette dealt in harsh detail with one John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, whom it claimed to have found intoxicated in a Manhattan brothel. It pilloried a Mrs. Ann Lohman-"Mme. Restell, the female abortionist." It had scant sympathy for Albert Deane Richardson, shot...
...religious, both these powers of the Press have investigated the Prohibishop boldly, intimately. Last week, with his spiritual trial in Virginia yet to stand, Bishop Cannon turned sharply on one of his observers. He sued William Randolph Hearst, personally, for $5,000,000 for "false, scandalous, defamatory and malicious libel...