Word: libelling
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...such an effluvium of decomposition about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...
Sued. Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan banker and grand opera tycoon; for $250,000 damages for alleged libel; by Rosalinda Morini, 26, coloratura soprano of Freehold, N. J. Last February Mr. Kahn was quoted in Miss Morini's advertisement in The Musical Courier as saying that she had "one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard." Also quoted were the words: "Metropolitan Grand Opera Co." Later Mr. Kahn denied making or authorizing any such statement and said the use of the Metropolitan's name was "evidently intended to exploit for Miss Morini's benefit the name...
William McAndrew, ousted superintendent of Chicago public schools, who sued Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago for libel ($250,000), is now in Europe. Last week, the case appeared in Chicago courts, was dismissed for want of prosecution...
...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...
...very time, it was alleged, that he was being entertained by a troup of jazzy show girls. The States reported that there were drinking, dancing and "petting," that the Governor had danced around with a drink in his hand. The States challenged the Governor to sue for libel. Mr. Danziger protested that his party had been "as clean as performances on any theatre stage in the city," but Governor Long said nothing, not even when Col. Ewing's Shreveport Times repeated the charges in the Governor's home town and made them ring through the state from...