Word: libellous
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...
William Crapo Durant sued the New York Telegram and eight other newspapers and news services for $45,000,000, the biggest libel action ever based on one story. The publications had carried a story which he interpreted as connecting him with shady stock deals resulting in heavy market losses to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hudson...
...shaken sense of its own civic virtue. While the other cities of the Republic smile with relief that the black spot has been presented to the Hub and not to them, the local city fathers run about distractedly hiding this and that issuing arrest warrants for authors, and crying libel before the public. It is a rather dreadful spectacle...
...John Roach Straton, who called him "one of the world's prophets." But in 1922 he was temporarily reinstated by Bishop Rhinelander, appointed lay reader in St. Paul's Church, Evanston, Wyo. Calling his new parish "the wickedest city in the U. S.," he was sued for libel, deposed. He entered the Methodist Church but soon left town. Before he went he filed suits totaling...
...Sued for Libel. Collier's Weekly; by onetime District Prohibition Administrator F. H. McLenahan; at Denver. The charge: that "false and derogatory" statements were made about him in the Dec. 28, 1928, issue of the magazine. His demand: $100,000 damages. The article, "Sugar Moon," said that 2,000 bootleggers thrive in Denver, sell whiskey made from sugar beets...