Word: libelous
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Newspapers in general, and contentious newspapers in particular, keep a wary eye out for the law of libel and usually steer a safe course outside the three mile limit. A libel case, a good one, is a rarity among the larger papers of the country. But by a decision of a Justice of the New York Supreme Court last week, Mr. William Randolph Hearst and the Star Company will have to defend a libel suit...
Some time ago the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a Hugo Stinnes journal, accused the Vossische Zeitung, a Berlin daily of Socialist views, of "being too friendly to France." Dr. Ullstein, Socialist publisher, and George Bernhard, editor-in-chief, decided to bring a libel suit against the Allgemeine Zeitung. The action promised to prove a big sensation in the Berlin newspaper world, but Hugo Stinnes discreetly ordered his paper to print the following apology...
...story continues at this rate of steady improvement the News may get a medal, or a libel suit...
...there may be prodigies, but in business there is only hard-headed experience. When George Joseph Demotte, noted art dealer of Manhattan and Paris died accidentally while hunting in France, he left several unfinished libel suits (TIME, Dec. 17), a well grounded reputation, a $2,000,000 art business...
...Court found Herr von der Heydt guilty of deliberate libel and fined him 300 gold marks...