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While other Germans gibbered outside, Dr. Schacht quietly entered the court by a back door, appeared as the plaintiff in a suit for libel against one Herr Roll, president of the Reichsbank Creditors' Association. Dr. Schacht complained that Herr Roll had libelously defamed him in a public speech as "the hangman of German industry . . . no cheat but a swindler...
...Boston courts a suit against the Aluminum Co. for $15,000,000 damages. Last week, still wroth, he filed another suit in Manhattan. If monopoly, in the sense established by the Sherman Anti-Trust law, is proved against a corporation such as the Aluminum Co. of America, the plaintiff is entitled to three times the damages which he can prove he suffered. Mr. Haskell now asks...
When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...
Last week the case came up in court. Counsel for the Cohens argued that the plaintiff is really a baroness, wife of Leopold Frederick Salvatore Baron Popper de Podhragy, that thus she is no longer Jeritza, has no more right to the name than have the Cohens. But Federal Judge Thatcher thought differently, decided in favor of "La Jeritza", ordered the Cohens to cease using her name...
...prove that he is, as the case may be, "an itchy old toad," "a tool of profiteers," "a damaged-goods chap." Following is a glossary, compiled last week by Editor and Publisher, of words and phrases each one of which has figured in a libel action won by the plaintiff...