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Meantime Mr. Vanderlip's attorneys prepared and filed his answer to a $600,000 suit for libel and slander which the owners of the Marion Star had instituted against him on the allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing...
Born. To Dr. Marie Stopes, famed British birth control propagandist, and H. V. Roe, pioneer aviator, a son. Dr. Stopes is editor of The Birth Control News and is author of Married Love, a volume which was the subject of a libel suit last year...
...Federal Government has filed suit against the General Electric Co., charging it with conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law in its system for manufacturing and distributing electric light bulbs. The suit is mainly directed against a contract system between the General Electric and several companies engaged in distributing electric bulbs, as preventing competition. The petition declares that the Company does a business amounting to about $50,000,000 a year. General Electric claims patent rights for the exclusive manufacture of tungsten filaments used in the better grade of bulbs today...
...dispute grows out of the leasing of the present clubhouse by the Delta Upsilon Associates, a body formed to administer the trust fund of about $50,000, to the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. This latter body has the lease from April 1, and the suit will best their ability to hold such a lease, and the ability of the Trustees to grant it. Representatives of the Harvard Chapter contend that they have never severed their connection with the present organization, and therefore such actions are illegal...
...American Telephone and Telegraph Co., in Manhattan, declared that it has not attempted and does not desire a monopoly of broadcasting; that broadcasting should be regulated by the Federal Government; that the company will grant rights under its patents for reasonable compensation to licensed stations; that its suit against WHN (TIME, March 17) was brought solely to protect its patents from infringement. The company also offered to lease its patents during their life to any licensed broadcasting station...