Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawful enterprise prepared to pay Lloyd's of London the right price can insure itself against almost any emergency. But lately Lloyd's rate on libel insurance has jumped prohibitively skyhigh. For shrewd, dumpy Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, has applied England's oppressive libel laws so sternly that rare has been the libel which could be successfully defended...
Night and Day, a London imitation of The New Yorker, was published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee Willie Winkie. One of England's famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle...
...little man to whom Mr. Hearst passed the staggering responsibilities of revamping his empire is one of his oldest but least publicized advisers. Clarence Shearn intended to be a newspaperman, but one of the first stories he wrote as a New York Times reporter resulted in a libel suit. Assigned to help frame the defense, Reporter Shearn soon took the law for a livelihood. In the early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents...
...Focus Editor Leslie T. White managed last week to put his brand-new monthly picture magazine in the news by getting himself indicted for criminal libel by a Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...
...believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make it a rule not to engage in a fumigation contest with a skunk...