Word: libels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers and itself. Truth is the only legitimate censor of the Public Press. Errors (not lies) find their way into the printed page as they do in the spoken word. In speech, they are excused as "slips of the tongue"; in print, they are inexcused and hastily defamed as "libel." Why the two standards? TIME is to be patted upon the back for printing the letters of its readers pointing out its errors; it is to be more heavily patted for not trying to excuse its faults as "typographical errors" or the result of "conditions over which it exerted...
...CONGRESS) when Banker Frank A. Vanderlip startled the country with hints of scandal when he spoke of the "strange" circumstance of two "unknown" young men acquiring ownership of The Marion Star from President Harding. The two "unknowns," Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush, sued him for libel. The case was recently settled out of court...
...maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential housekeeper (on vacation) ; Wilson Jackson, master of pets; Rudolf Forster, executive clerk (on duty in Washington...
Died. Emanuel Lorenz Philipp, 64, onetime (1915-21) Governor of Wisconsin, Republican and arch enemy of the late Senator LaFollette; in Milwaukee of a heart attack. In 1908, he sued McClure's Magazine for $100,000 for libel in publishing articles accusing him of lobbying and receiving improper commissions from a railroad. He won a verdict...
...Sapiro has accordingly sued Henry Ford and the Dearborn Publishing Co. for $1,000,000 libel. The lawyer claims that his standing with U. S. and Canadian farmers has been irreparably damaged by the articles put out in Mr. Ford's paper. All in all, Mr. Sapiro's declaration amounts to 92 printed pages, and contains 21 separate "counts," each of which quotes articles said to have appeared in the Dearborn Independent...