Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With just enough changes to avoid libel suits, "Citizen Kane" is the story of William Randolph Hearst. As a skeleton for his plot, Welles uses the interviews of a reporter for a Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different...
...will probably conclude that he was guilty as charged by church and state. But thousands of prohibitionists were ready to accept the denials of the man who had done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled the Hearst suits out of court, also lost his suits against TIME...
...Farrell switched from Clare to Carr, after a reader named Bernard Clare brought suit for libel...
...blunders are as celebrated as his successes. He made most of Michigan mad with an abusive obituary of the respected Senator James Couzens. He ran a frontpage article accusing Radio Father Charles E. Coughlin of "congenital inability to tell the truth," and Father Coughlin filed a $4,000,000 libel suit against the Free Press (the suit was dropped). Day after last November's election, the Free Press carried an editorial announcing Dewey's victory...
Shirtsleeved Editor Shipler got into plenty of fights, never backed away from one. Pounding out slam-bang editorials against the corruption of Hollywood, he ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected...