Word: libelous
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...would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected-but it is not freedom to work children, or do business in a fire trap or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness...
Many a paper took columns to say what Publisher Leonard Kimball Nicholson of the New Orleans Times Picayune put into 35 words: "Inasmuch as we do not 'work children, or do business in a fire trap, or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness,' there is no comment we can make on the President's action...
...methods and results. . . . The greater part has sped dying and fallen dead. Of late, professional criticism has degenerated into scurrilous and personal appraisements of, and assaults on, officials. A conspicuous recent instance is by a writer who dared not sign his name. . . . With a little less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer...
...launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties...
Meanwhile in Britain where it takes much less impudence by the Press to stir up much more trouble than in the U. S., the tall, hard-living Duke of Westminster last week started a libel suit against his 26-year-old niece, Lady Sibell Lygon, and Editor W. G. A. Wayte of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Owner of 600 acres on London's fashionable West End, the Duke of Westminster has an income of $1,225,000 a year out of which he pays $50,000 in alimony to the two wives who divorced him for adultery...