Word: libelous
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Correspondents who cabled that no German cartoonist had dared to caricature President von Hindenburg during the recent April Fools' Day spree of lampooning German statesmen (TIME, April 11), were obliged to retract their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys...
...Vienna, the notably progressive Judge Sieber ("the Judge Lindsey of Austria") ruled sternly last week upon a libel action brought by a young woman against a man who admitted boasting of his intimacy with...
Goaded to an extreme, Judge Dearth haled Editor Dale to his court for criminal libel. Editor Dale refused to go, left the management of his sheet in Mrs. Dale's hands and fled to Ohio. Judge...
...another the truth, whatever it may be. The law puts no bridle in the mouth of the truth. And so we claim here and shall try to show you that what has been printed of Mr. Sapiro in all of its real essence was the truth. . . . It is no libel to say truthfully of a man who is a Jew that...
...much would it hurt Mr. $100,000.000 Hearst to part with $1,500,000 in a libel suit? No more, and probably less, than it would hurt an urchin with one dollar in his panties to pay a one-cent school fine for having filthy hands. It would probably hurt Mr. Hearst less than the schoolboy because the injustices Mr. Hearst may do an individual here and there are wafted off his conscience by the enormous amount of good he thinks he brings to THE PEEPUL...