Word: libelous
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...Avco occurred in quick succession. E. F. Hutton & Co., Cord supporters, published a booklet in which President Cohu's name appeared above an Avco balance sheet showing $20,000,000 losses since 1929. Mr. Cohu, who has been president for only six months, started a $1,000,000 libel suit. Also, Avco got and published a letter from President William Green of the A. F. of L. Excerpts: "We are thoroughly convinced that Mr. Cord is hostile to union labor. ... If [he] secures control . . . it will be the purpose of the A. F. of L. to call the attention...
...Famed cases: representing four Manhattan banks v. the Insull utility companies (lost, appealed, won), the children of the late Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter) to remove Joseph Leiter as trustee of Levi Leiter's estate (lost), the Chicago Tribune v. Henry Ford in Ford's suit for libel (award...
...Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...
President Macaulay went furiously to court, charged James J. Harpell who writes and published the Canadian Journal of Commerce, with criminal libel. Publisher Harpell's lawyers would not handle the case. He appeared in Court alone and shocked everybody by screaming: "The plaintiff . . . has given to Samuel and Martin Insull and Ivar Kreuger $26,000,000 of policyholders' funds. ... I am here to swear out a warrant for his arrest...
Medical affidavits filed with the court in Soprano Rosalinda Morini's $250,000 libel suit against Otto Hermann Kahn disclosed that he was abed at his Manhattan home, in serious condition with high blood pressure, angina pectoris, complicating pulmonitis...