Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court originally had but six members. A seventh was added in 1866, two more...
Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine, drunken, degraded, cast off by her husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences...
...Marines in Eurasia. The complicated romance between the best-looking Marine and a Russian girl is so intelligently directed by Howard Higgin that at times you do not notice that the story is entirely pointless. Best shot: the camera moving from one face to another at a court-martial while a voice from an unseen source thunders accusations...
...publishes "a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical is guilty of a nuisance" and may be enjoined from further publication. In the fall of 1927 two men started publishing a Minneapolis weekly paper called The Saturday Press. After publishing nine issues they were hailed into court and the publication ordered suspended. They pleaded that the law was unconstitutional. The Minnesota Supreme Court held otherwise. Under the law the two publishers were perpetually enjoined from publishing their "nuisance" under the name of The Saturday Press or any other name. The case is now pending a second time before...
...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...