Word: libelling
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That item, buried away on the legal record page of the Washington Post last week, was the only news given capital citizens of the fact that William Randolph Hearst had again been trounced in a libel suit by Frank E. Bonner, onetime executive secretary of the Federal Power Commission. The Washington case was second in a list of actions against 14 Hearstpapers resulting from their syndicated attack three years ago upon Bonner and another Power Commission employe named Frank Warren Griffith as minions of "the Power Trust" (TIME...
...Boston, where five months ago Hearst's American was ordered to pay $50,000 to Bonner, $4,200 to Griffith, the Washington newspapers loyally obeyed their unwritten law to ignore libel suits involving each other. In one particular, however, Hearst's Washington Herald broke the rule. When five of Plaintiff Griffith's nine counts were dismissed (he collected $250 each on the other four), the Herald blithely headlined...
With the score $100,200 against "Power Trust"-hating Mr. Hearst, Lawyer Hogan & Co. prepared to march on to Los Angeles in September for the next trial in their chain libel action...
...Last week the City chuckled at the plight of William Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
Mirthfully convinced, Hon. Mr. Justice Branson dismissed the libel, ordered Broker Blennerhassett to pay costs, including the fat fee of suave Sir Patrick Hastings...