Word: libelous
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...Earl of Harewood, son-in-law of George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay ?16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years...
Meanwhile in Manhattan a magistrate dismissed a charge of libel filed in their own behalf by eccentric Stanley Faithfull & wife, parents of the late Starr Faithfull (TIME, June 29), against Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson and Reporter Sidney Sutherland of the tabloid Dally News. But the court did find evidence that the memory of Starr Faithfull had been libeled, offered to hear testimony...
...libel suit brought by Architect Alister Gladstone MacDonald, eldest son of Prime Minister MacDonald, against the London Daily Mail was settled out of court. The offending article in the Mail said that Mr. MacDonald "began by being a clever architect," referred to his "adventures in Hollywood," spoke of his alleged connection with a firm of publishers of cheap novels. The Mail acknowledged "misapprehension of the facts," guaranteed to indemnify Architect MacDonald, announced that it thought so much of him professionally it had engaged him as an architect...
...presidential days. Nicholas Murray Butler and Elihu Root released their Roosevelt correspondence. Ralph Pulitzer turned over evidence on Panama which the New York World assembled for its defense when President Roosevelt ordered U. S. Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned that the President went blind in his left eye in 1908 and "not more than a half dozen people knew it." Mrs. Robert Bacon helped fill in the blank spots on the first Roosevelt marriage. Here and there are footnoted...
...White House. President Roosevelt, primed, recognized the new order with ''indecent and unwise haste." When the Indianapolis News, backed by the New York World suggested that some of the $40,000,000 to be paid to French stockholders had gone elsewhere Roosevelt, white with rage, started his absurd libel suit under an act "to protect the harbor defenses . . . used by the U. S. from malicious injury." Pride in the canal later caused Roosevelt to declare: "I took Panama and let Congress debate." The virulent hatred of Roosevelt for Woodrow Wilson grew out of the fact that the Democratic President...