Word: slanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, was booming out his opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan for slander, she told what she overheard: "On the practice tee, Major Fleischmann, in a loud voice, stated . . .: 'What do you think of our blackmailing tart? No lady ever brings a suit for breach of promise. Only a chorus girl does this'". Argued Mrs. Doubleday: "This statement was intended...
...dust settled from the Manhattan opening of the new Frick Art Reference Library fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 21) than the donor found herself last week deeply involved in hot and noisy litigation. James Howard Bridge, a white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator of her father...
...peaceful little Oraschin, terrible-tempered Town Councilman Wenzel Klimes called the autocratic local mayor "a Hitler." Last week the Mayor brought suit for slander. Ruled the judge: "To call an official 'a Hitler' is an objectionable expression, reflecting on the authority of the person attacked. Councilman Klimes, I sentence you to pay a fine of 30 crowns [$1.25] or to serve 24 hours in jail...
...plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court. Rector Livingston, 70, was suing Miss Smith, 71, for $50,000, charging slander. He had begun paying attention when he heard that she was accusing him of misappropriating church funds. The trouble was over $110. That was the accumulated interest on a fund which one of Miss Smith's relatives long ago set up for the care of the church fence. Rector Livingston...
...compared Warren Gamaliel Harding's "moral leadership" to Abraham Lincoln's, his maiden speech in the Senate was a spirited defense of the discredited President's administration. Never a member of the Ohio Gang, he nevertheless branded each investigation of its misdeeds as "an orgy of slander, a spree of muckraking, a riot of vituperation and incrimination...