Word: libels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jason Noble Pierce (President Coolidge's Congregational pastor in Washington, D. C.) was sued for $50,000 libel by one Howard T. Cole, U. S. Shipping Board engineer, who complained that Dr. Pierce had sent deacons to spy on his actions with young women, then charged him with moral turpitude in letters recommending his dismissal by the Shipping Board. Mr. Cole was not a member of Dr. Pierce's church...
...League of Nations, known because of his silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together. Then M. Paul-Bancour instituted suit for libel in behalf of his new client against the producers of The Merry Widow. To newsgatherers M. Danilo explained passionately: "There is a 'Prince Danilo' in that film. . . . Gentlemen, I am Prince Danilo. There is no other! ... I am unspeakably pained to see myself travestied by a cheap cinema star...
Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father, who almost escaped notice last week when Defendant Sari Fedak swept into court, clad in a black gown tight as snakeskin, looking perhaps half her 43 years...
Conclusions: 1) The plav may postpone the next war with Mexico for several weeks. 2) For a line relative to making war on Mexico for the sake of oil interests? "Hearst tried in 1911, but he didn't get away with it"?Oilman William Randolph Hearst may institute libel suit against Producer Jed Harris. 3) Theatregoers have a perfect example of the modern drama of "debunk" ? melodramatic, cruelly ironical, peppered with smart cracks, staged with a faithfulness to reality that belies its flashy, imaginative cunning...
...generation (unless as may be, she is utterly typical), it will be faintly disturbed by writing which for docile triteness resembles nothing so much as one of Dr. Prank Crane's high-school themes. It is to be hoped that the whole book is a gross libel...