Word: libelous
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Died. George Joseph Demotte, Manhattan and Paris antiquarian, art dealer, near Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, France. Returned from hunting, he was killed by the accidental discharge of a friend's rifle. Last Spring, he brought suit for libel against Sir Joseph Duveen, English art dealer, alleging that the latter stated that an enameled Virgin and Child had not, as Demotte represented, belonged to Queen Isabella the Catholic, of Spain. The case is now pending in the U. S. courts. In the French courts is also pending his suit for breach of confidence against M. Jean Vigoroux, French antiquarian, his former...
...July). However, the three I. W. W. were released and, as they left the jail, were kidnaped by a group of men. According to some reports they were "beaten up," according to others, murdered. Holland, at least, was not killed. From a hospital "somewhere" he filed a $50,000 libel suit against a Port Arthur paper for a story printed about him when he was arrested...
...American Legion accused of being "bums, tramps and vagabonds" and "bought with British gold to suppress truth" was vindicated in Chicago. Arthur Lorenz, former editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung (German), made the above remarks editorially. Suit was brought for criminal libel and Mr. Lorenz convicted by a jury. Unless he can secure a new trial he is liable to a year in prison, a $500 fine, or both...
Henry Ford is liable soon to be sued for libel, according to Herman Bernstein, editor of The Jewish Tribune. On August 20, 1921, Mr. Ford's paper, The Dearborn Independent published an article which according to the Jewish editor was "scurrilous and libelous...
Some years ago the Chicago Tribune made unkind remarks about Henry Ford, and the supermechanic sued the Tribune for libel. In the course of Mr. Ford's testimony at the trial Tribune lawyers found that he did not differentiate between Arnold Bennett and Benedict Arnold. But Mr. Ford won the suit and at his own request took six cents in damages...