Word: libelous
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...cables, radio, letters); 2) withholding at the source military secrets valuable to the enemy; 3) use of the Espionage Act to prevent publication of information of value to the enemy; 4) "voluntary censorship." Censor Price sees his administration of the blurred area called "voluntary censorship" in terms of newspaper libel law, i.e., when in doubt, see a libel lawyer (read censor) before publishing anything...
...late Drs. William and Charles Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., who hated publicity so much that they once wanted to sue for "libel" a newspaper which praised them, this week are the subject of an authorized biography. Five years ago, three years before they died, the Mayo brothers gave the University of Minnesota permission to publish a biography of themselves and their pioneer father, Dr. William Worrall Mayo, who died in 1911, at 91. The Doctors Mayo, published this week by the University of Minnesota Press ($3.75), is authored by a onetime Minnesota librarian, Helen Berniece Clapesattle. Written with Victorian reverence...
...neophyte attorneys take civil cases of all types, ranging from libel and slander to illegitimacy, with marital difficulties furnishing the large part of the work...
...Communist charge was A. Frank Reel '28, one of the men endorsed by the Plan E Committee. "False, completely and utterly false," Reel stated of the publication last night. Reel declared his intension of bringing suit against Daniel F. O'Brien, Democratic Chairman, for $25,000 on charges of libel and slander. "I'm afraid it will affect my chances at the polls tomorrow," Reel stated gloomily...
...bashed in his fortune trying to buck the Star. Utility-man Henry L. Doherty, who bought 50% control in 1931, sank about $300,000 a year in the Journal (plus $250,000 a year in utility advertising). His only profit: whatever satisfaction came from his hysterical series of libel and conspiracy suits totaling $54,000,000 against the Star for its hard-hitting campaign for lower gas rates (they were thrown...