Word: libelous
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...Boston, Second Officer Wilhelm Harren of the German tanker Pauline Friederich, which took refuge there four months ago carrying $250,000 worth of lubricants, last week filed a libel action in Federal court, demanding that the vessel be sold to satisfy his claim of $98.60 in back wages, and more for the hungry crew. Wilhelm Harren of Hamburg announced he was through with the Nazi regime. His spokesman: Boston Attorney Hyman Katz...
...Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel, a process server cornered Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, handed her: 1) a subpoena to appear as a witness, 2) 50? for carfare, 3) 50? for a day's fee. Occasion: a $150,000 libel suit brought against Collier's by Joseph R. Levy, divorced husband of Paulette Goddard's mother, be cause, he alleged, a story was published saying he was Paulette's stepfather, not father. Cinemactress Goddard failed to show up and the court decreed a command performance on Jan. 16 in which she should tell why she should...
Last week, because of this editorial, Colonel Knox and the Daily News were defendants in a $250,000 libel suit. Democratic Governor Horner accused Republican Colonel Knox of: 1) implying that Bioff's extradition had been postponed for improper reasons; 2) misrepresenting facts; 3) trying to "impair and destroy the influence and power of the Democratic Party...
...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
...libel and a deep hurt to me, and to prove how mistaken you are, I'm enclosing a lovely, authentic portrait of me done in oils by Bill Scott, Minneapolis Times-Tribune artist...