Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yardstick by which newspapers judge "what is news" is often mislaid when the story of a libel suit occurs. No matter how interesting to the public the facts might be, newspapers rarely mention legal action against themselves or their contemporaries, even if decided favorably to the Press; practically never if the verdict be adverse...
Headlined the Dunkirk, N. Y., Observer: "Coaching System Condemned for Terrific Lacings Given Dunkirk High Football Team." Coach Karl Hoeppner sued for libel. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals vindicated the Observer, ruled: "Everyone has a right to comment on matters of public interest and concern, provided he does so fairly and with an honest purpose. . . . Thus it has been held that books, prints, pictures, statuary publicly exhibited, and the architecture of public buildings, and actors and exhibitors are all the legitimate subjects of newspaper criticism. Such criticism, fairly and honestly made, is not libelous, however strong...
Retraction. Of the Press's many defense weapons against libel suits, Retraction is only one. Rarely offered in court as a complete defense, it often serves to reduce damages, both compensatory and punitive.* Last week the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court took from Retraction much of its potency, by ruling that it could not be accepted in mitigation of compensatory damages. In so ruling the court upheld the appeal of William H. Kehoe from a verdict of 6? damages against the New York Herald Tribune.†He had sued for a compensatory...
...Rolla, Mo., last winter, Rev. Paul Bennett, young savior, distributed handbills accusing Teacher Olive Warren of "smoking and helping a man drink a bottle of whiskey." Last week a jury of farmers retired to decide whether or not Teacher Warren had been libeled. "Smoking and drinking by modern women," counsel for Mr. Bennett told them, "is an established custom. It therefore is not libel to say a woman does something which custom makes perfectly proper for her to do." Teacher Warren's lawyers, however, stated that she never drank or smoked, that "she didn't think nice women...
...founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair's furnace at Helicon Hall, dropped the Harry from his full name (Harry Sinclair Lewis), later quarreled with Author Sinclair. Author Sinclair's books have been translated into many foreign languages...