Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business as well as of books," said Hays, who became rich on the fees of his banker and broker clients...
Harold Hestnes, another member of the Union subcommittee, protested that actual censorship of offending material would be contrary to a specific vote of the Union Committee Nov. 31. The vote defeated a motion to require Sub-committee approval of all election material...
...defeat came after Michael J. Harrington protested against any censorship, on the grounds that college students are responsible enough to be trusted. Harrington said no freshman would vote for a candidate who put up a lurid sign...
...Basque-born Father Jesús Iribarren, 42, editor of Ecclesia, official weekly of the Catholic Action group, and long regarded as a strong voice of freedom in Spain. Editor Iribarren roused the Caudillo's ire by publishing an article outspokenly critical of Spain's press censorship (TIME, May 31). Franco's press boss ordered Father Iribarren to quit, and his Minister of Information urged Iribarren's superior, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Primate of all Spain, to fire the stiff-necked editor. Pla y Deniel refused but secretly suspended Iribarren. A bishop's conference...
...Military censorship was ended in Korea last week for the first time in four years. Said Defense Secretary Charles Wilson: "The stabilized military situation, the redeployment of U.S. forces and the reduction in the quantity of news requiring review makes it appropriate...