Word: libelous
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...treasonable document imputed to Captain Dreyfus. He was tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence in the Dreyfus trial had consisted of forged documents. One Colonel Henry, chief of the French intelligence department, convicted of having forged one of these documents, committed...
...long distance Bell Telephone operator last week plugged a Detroit and Chicago office into connection. In the Chicago office was Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, organizer of farmers' co-operative associations, who had a $1,000,000 libel suit pending against Henry Ford (TIME, March 21, 28). Interconnected with his office telephone so that his long distance talk with Detroit could be witnessed were the telephones of his associates and representatives of Mr. Ford. In the Detroit office was a similar arrangement. The telephone of Clifford B. Longley, general counsel for the Ford Motor Co. was "hooked up" with those of Lawyer...
...Referring to Mr. Ford's testimony in his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune...
Take for instance police methods. Leon Daudet, famous editor of the Royalist. "L' Action Francaise", two years ago was sentenced to jail for a political offense--libel. But M. Daudet was not arrested such methods are not used in France, especially not with political defendants. Any such action the police wisely aver would serve no good cause, for it would merely make a martyr out of the convict, and political martyrs talk louder and are listened too more eagerly than ordinary politicians...
...Jason Noble Pierce (President Coolidge's Congregational pastor in Washington, D. C.) was sued for $50,000 libel by one Howard T. Cole, U. S. Shipping Board engineer, who complained that Dr. Pierce had sent deacons to spy on his actions with young women, then charged him with moral turpitude in letters recommending his dismissal by the Shipping Board. Mr. Cole was not a member of Dr. Pierce's church...