Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Smith, author of the best-seller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and her publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived...
...most other businessmen were outraged because an employer, if he so much as remarked that he did not like unions, could promptly be hauled before the National Labor Relations Board and charged with unfair labor practices. But unions could say anything they felt about management, short of libel...
...Full name: United Mail Order, Warehouse & Retail Employes Union. Ward's is currently suing the union's publication, Spotlight, for $1,000,000, alleging some 350 libelous stories. Month ago, Ward's $1,000,000 libel suit against McGraw-Hill for a Business Week article stating that Ward's had given a federal conciliator the "runaround" was dismissed by Chicago's Federal Judge John P. Barnes...
...slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic row with officials, Pearson is not held in awesome respect by his colleagues. But few will deny that when he is hot on a hidden story he is very hot indeed. Lately noted: a leaning to coherent punditry on the international side...
Earl Browder, No. 1 U.S. Communist, brought a libel suit against the Philadelphia Record, which had called him a "convicted perjurer." Convicted three years ago of obtaining a passport by misrepresentation and fraud, he demanded $100,000 damages, as a "person of good fame, name, credit and reputation...