Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their fight for the news, reporters have to battle a growing attitude on the part of state and local officers that public business is none of the public's business (TIME, May 5 et seq.). Last week North Carolina newsmen lost a round. When a vital Appropriations subcommittee, disregarding state law, denied them access to its budget hearings, capital reporters staged a sitdown in the hearing room...
Early this month, when General James A. Van Fleet shocked the Senate Armed Services Committee into an investigation of the U.S. Army's ammunition shortage (TIME. March 16 et seq.), the security-minded Senators heard much of his testimony in closed session. Last week the committee released a censored version of the former Eighth Army commander's secret testimony-testimony which made it clear that the ammunition shortage was only one of many U.S. blunders in Korea. Said Van Fleet...
...educated by U.S. missionaries at Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Later, G.I.s chipped in to help him build a church for Seoul's dead-end kids, and many U.S. Christians sent him money when they read about his work in TIME (Feb. 16, 1948 et seq.). Now, at last, Pastor Ye had come...
When newsmen were barred from the Manhattan vice trial of Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke (TIME, Feb. 16 et seq.), five dailies and two press services appealed the ruling of Trial Judge Francis L. Valente. Last week the New York supreme court's appellate division, in a 3-to-2 decision, slapped down the publishers on the ground that "freedom of the press is not involved." Said the majority: there is no "right of every citizen to be a spectator" at a trial. Public trials are only to protect "the civil rights of the individual" (defendant), and third parties...
...were shouted out of Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs in filmland...