Word: libelous
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Louisiana observers remarked: 1) that Baptist Governor Long, engaged in tussling with Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr over his job (see p. 13), might win Catholic sympathy by a tactful gesture in the direction of complaining Mgr. Gassier; 2) that Dr. Uhler (and three others) won a libel suit a year ago against one Kemble Kenneth Kennedy, 29, friend and protege of Governor Long who had published an obscene, yawping edition of the University Whangdoodle, calling Dr. Uhler a narcotic addict and a lecher. For this Protege Kennedy was sentenced to a year in jail, was at once reprieved by Governor...
...said that the attack indicated the decline of "charitable spirit" and the troubled condition of Christianity. Nonetheless, he respected the Catholic Church. Though Episcopalian himself, he said he was related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said Dr. Uhler was lucky...
...Bishop Cannon has brought a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman Tinkham. Also awaiting trial are the Bishop's $6,000,000 libel actions against the Hearst newspapers and their publisher as a result of stories about his second marriage...
...almost all States laws have been enacted which make "wilful and malicious" slander a crime. Libel laws cover only written defamation, and few rumors about banks are ever printed. The original bill was drafted in 1907 by .gaunt, white-haired Thomas Bugard Paton, now gen- eral counsel for American Bankers Association. Many mongers have been indicted, but in few cases have banks ever carried the case to a finish because of community sentiment. Monger O'Connell's conviction would be the first in New York State since the passage of the law in 1912. Indicted recently...
...paper. In fact, he contracted to let 10% of his stock be without vote. What he wanted and got was the status of "special contributing editor," with the right to "insert as editorials anything that I think proper" without any censorship. He assumed personal responsibility for any libel suits he might cause, and the Journal-Post editors are entitled to dispute him in columns adjoining...