Word: libelously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Macaulay went furiously to court, charged James J. Harpell who writes and published the Canadian Journal of Commerce, with criminal libel. Publisher Harpell's lawyers would not handle the case. He appeared in Court alone and shocked everybody by screaming: "The plaintiff . . . has given to Samuel and Martin Insull and Ivar Kreuger $26,000,000 of policyholders' funds. ... I am here to swear out a warrant for his arrest...
Medical affidavits filed with the court in Soprano Rosalinda Morini's $250,000 libel suit against Otto Hermann Kahn disclosed that he was abed at his Manhattan home, in serious condition with high blood pressure, angina pectoris, complicating pulmonitis...
...Publisher Bonfils. Scripps-Howard withdrew its evening paper, Bonfils his morning one. There was amiable talk about how the remaining sheets would "deserve the respect and friendship of each other." Last week Publisher Bonfils sued Publishers Howard & Scripps and Editor Charles E. Lounsbury of the Rocky Mountain News for libel. He sued not because of any mean things said by the News, but because of things which the News said had been said by Walter Walker, retiring Democratic State Chairman and hard-hitting publisher of the Grand Junction Sentinel. Chairman Walker had made a speech in behalf of Governor William...
...Correspondent (Columbia). If the journalist in this picture wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt...
...this indiscretion People apologized, offered heavy damages, which Lady Louis regally refused. Her counsel, Norman Birkett, explained that her departure for Malta, where her husband is in Naval service, "had given an opportunity for the lying, malignant and poisonous tongues of scandal to wag. . . . The most atrocious libel of which I have any knowledge in all my experience. . . . She had been informed of the identity of the colored man. . . . She has never even...