Word: libelously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your newsmagazine of Jan. 26, in which you have informed of birth of my tenth son, but first by my actual wife. Because you do not state the pure truth, to effect that my boy was born prematurely it is my opinion you make implications of libel and slander nature. I implore that you make retraction with apology and in event of desire I shall be delighted to send doctor's certificate of truth in above...
What happened later to change Herr Jaffe's mind is not recorded. But in Berlin last week Reporter Knickerbocker won a court injunction, forerunner of a libel suit, against a book just published: Murderers, Counterfeiters & Provocateurs, by Vladimir Orloff. In a preface to his client's volume, Herr Jaffe stated that M. Orloff had been forced into his crime by an agent provocateur in the person of Reporter Knickerbocker...
...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...good repute, a onetime Chicago rail-road counsel, wanted no stock. Fortnight later Town Topics printed an insinuating story in which Lawyer Brown believed he recognized himself, his wife, and another woman. Last week Augustus Ralph Keller, president and editor of Town Topics, was under indictment for criminal libel. He denied attempting to sell stock to Lawyer Brown, declared he had been out of town when the offending story was written. Publisher Keller's regime on Town Topics was until recently, relatively inconspicuous. Five years ago he succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously...
Slander & Libel...