Word: libelous
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...article in the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly by Noobar R. Danielian, instructor in Economics, is the cause of two $100,000 libel suits brought by the Associated Gas and Electric Company against the Atlantic Monthly Company and the Atlantic Monthly Press. Dr. Danielian's article was entitled "Gas: A Study in Expansion. The Case of Associated Gas.", and presented facts "relative to the industrial feudalism" of the Associated Gas and Electric Company. Since the article was printed, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency recently added the Associated Gas and Electric to the list of companies which...
...racket, it is headed "J.P. Morgan and Co Points Way for Capone's Release," and is signed merely "Subscribe to the American Progress." So diplomacy may succeed where the gentle art of self-defense failed, and the best defense is a gallant offense such as libel. If Capone claims the reward from Colliers', Mr. Morgan, by putting the government on one of its fashionable lists will see that Capone is set free. Capone would no doubt like to round off the Century of Progress with a riotous New Year's eve on the Loop. But for the present, while...
...weekly magazine published with a slender circulation in Oklahoma and other States in the Mid-West has made a bid for subscriptions by one of its numerous resorts to yellow journalism. "In its issue of July 17, 1933, TIME went out of its way to libel and defame the name and reputation of Charles N. Haskell, the first state governor of Oklahoma. As a delegate to the constitutional convention, as a governor of the State and as one of its delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder...
...Only recently an Eastern magazine defamed the character of a famous Oklahoman and paid off in damages after being sued for libel. This however, is not a sufficient nor fining rebuke for the crime of malicious defamation upon the name of the dead. It has been truly said that the only defense a private citizen, or even a public official has against a scurrilous yellow newspaper or magazine is the double-barrelled shotgun but unfortunately its use is a violation of the law and in this particular case the heart of the man who should use it had been forever...
...doubtful whether this insult should be officially noticed but the Oklahoma State Senate, as an added tribute to the memory of the State's illustrious first governor, takes this occasion to give official denunciation to this infamous libel and an exposure of the author who gave it expression and the TIME, the magazine whose circulation depends upon its brazen iniquity...