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Editor Brown pocketed the summons, to answer one Herbert T. Darling's $50,000 libel suit, no less distressed by his paper's breach of etiquet than by the fact that the "meanest" rider was not Mr. Darling but a man employed at the same address. Last week Taxi Weekly printed a lengthy retraction and apology, but despite the good-natured advice of the court, Mr. Darling continued his suit, which pends...
...yardstick by which newspapers judge "what is news" is often mislaid when the story of a libel suit occurs. No matter how interesting to the public the facts might be, newspapers rarely mention legal action against themselves or their contemporaries, even if decided favorably to the Press; practically never if the verdict be adverse...
...Dinwiddie's suit is based on articles alleging that he "misappropriated" $10,000 provided by Congress in 1915 for an anti-alcoholism conference, which was postponed by the advent...
...Attorney General Mitchell brought suit last week to restrain the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern ("Chicago Outer Belt Line") from transporting products of the U. S. Steel Corp. The commodities clause of the Interstate Commerce Act forbids a railroad to haul commodities manufactured by it or by its subsidiaries. Whether the reverse also holds?that a manufacturer may not own a railroad that hauls his freight? is the question, to determine which the Attorney General is bringing his suit. Should he win, U. S. Steel will be mightily embarrassed, for it will have to give up its control not only...
...legal objection to the deal is based on the extent and nature of stock-buying by promerger forces before the stockholders' meeting (TIME, April 21). More significant than the question of the $1,000,000 salary, this testimony will feature the opening of Mr. Eaton's latest suit to enjoin the merger, in Youngstown, next week...