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Soft-voiced Mr. White, now an instructor in ethics at Howard, was outraged when he found himself publicized as an intermediary in procuring a harem wife from among Alabama womanhood, promptly sued the Post for $100,000, claiming he had been libeled. The Post filed a demurrer on the grounds that White had suffered no damage and that the suit was nonactionable, was upheld in Circuit Court. White appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court and ordered the case remanded in a resounding opinion by Justice Thomas E. Knight Sr.: "The purchase of a girl from...
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Editorial offices buzzed early this year when Charles Fulton Oursler, 44, well-paid editor-in-chief for Bernarr Macfadden's 5? weekly Liberty magazine, popped into the spotlight with a $150,000 libel suit against his employer's estranged wife, Mary Macfadden (TIME, Feb. 1). Editor Oursler charged she had written three nasty letters about him, one to New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having...
...successful Hearst city editor, inventing a newspaper game in which players use pictures of people, would surely include a flattering photo of Miss Marion Davies. In the instructions would be warnings on the law of libel. And in the game, news items would stress crime, sensationalism...
...River. For reasons of their own, Pawtucket politicians had insisted on building the new City Hall on a low-lying lot, and they did not want their location photographed with water creeping over it. Also in March, Walter O'Hara sued the Journal for $1,000,000 for libel because it intimated that he was working in collusion with Pawtucket officials to sell that city a bargain-bought textile mill to use as a power plant. Shortly afterward, Democratic State Representatives scowled at the Journal by passing a measure calling for the investigation of its tax payments...