Word: libels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a newspaper prints an objectionable personal reference, you can shoot the editor, but usually your only legal redress is to sue for libel. Not so in Minnesota. There they have a "Newspaper Suppression Act," called by libertarians a "Gag Law." Last week State Chief Justice S. B. Wilson ruled that the law does not violate the constitutional provision guaranteeing freedom of the press...
Threats and rumors of a sensational libel suit refocussed French attention last week on one of the most spectacular figures in the National Assembly, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Senator of France...
Last week the defeated candidate sought revenge, demanded that the Chamber of Deputies lift Parliamentary immunity from incorrigible Senator Maurice, so that he, Paul Hoeffler, could bring suit for gross libel and defamation of character. Sure of spicy details to come, Senators and Deputies angled eagerly for seats on the committee appointed to investigate the charges...
Professional Texan, old-style, is Owen P. White, storyteller. Professional Texan, new style, is Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo Globe-News, son of old-time Ed Howe, "Sage of Potato Hill" (Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
Novelist Zweig sued for criminal libel. Last week a Berlin judge listened gravely to Lieut. Col. von Bogen's patrioteering defense, fined him $150, ruled that "no writer need be subjected to such scurrilous personal attacks...