Word: libelously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appealed. The Doherty companies regarded the verdict as a complete victory and their bearded chief and Mrs. Doherty went off on a trip through central Florida with Carl Byoir, his able publicist. Still awaiting trial is Mr. Doherty's answer to his severest critic: a $12,000,000 libel suit against the Kansas City Star...
...bitter article about Sun Life's 72-year-old President Thomas Bassett Macaulay, in which President Macaulay was described as an Insull conspirator, likened to the late Ivar Kreuger, called "one of the world's greatest crooks, a colossal liar, and a swindler." President Macaulay sued for libel (TIME, Oct. 24). Publisher Harpell's usual lawyers would not handle the case for him. At first he harped bitterly on this handicap as he pleaded his own defense. Then a lawyer named Calizte Cormier pleaded that Publisher Harpell had done great services to insurance companies, that Sun Life...
Sirs: If I had the "ungovernable temper" which you ascribe to me, I would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of your misrepresentations and let you suffer the chagrin that the truth would have made a more romantic story than your fiction...
Call Her Savage (Fox) is a blatant and tasteless libel on the Amerind, notable only because its heroine is impersonated by Clara Bow, who retired from the cinema in 1931 after winning a suit against her secretary, Daisy De Boe. When, after retiring to a Nevada ranch and marrying Actor Rex Bell, Cinemactress Bow announced last summer that she would resume acting, producers were dubious. They felt that Miss De Boe's revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle...
Publisher Bonfils' $200,000 libel suit against the News, its editor and Publishers