Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Manhattan's PM appeared on Boston newsstands with an anti-Hearst series, Reporter Reilly finagled through the City Council a city ordinance requiring newsboys and street stands to pay a $10-a-year license fee for out-of-State papers they handled. That, thought Reilly. would put a crimp in PM's Boston circulation. By week's end, when even Hearst's own Boston Record joined the general clamor for a mayoralty veto. Reporter Reilly discovered that he had overlooked one important fact: Hearst's New York Daily Mirror has a profitable Sunday street...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still...
...Russia and Japan he brings his firsthand knowledge to bear on the question which may well decide the issue of World War II. What is this new Russian spirit? It is not entirely new. "Fee fi fo fum, I smell Russian blood! For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself in your eyes and slaps you across the face." These words are not from a speech by Stalin. They are the lines the old witch (Baba Yaga) always speaks in the oldest of Russian folk tales...
Even if this ordinance did no more than limit to the large dealers who are willing to pay the required fee, the sale of the less widely circulated out-of-state papers such as the so-called pressure group and party organs, there would be ample all for its veto. But the precedent set by such a ruling, as well as its immediate implications, cut a good deal deeper. From all angles it adds up in the end to a check on the freedom of the press. It shifts the choice of reading matter from the public to the City...
...case, however, was continued indefinitely, and James reversed his previous stand on bail, asking that he be allowed to go free under those conditions. After he had paid the $500 fee set by Judge Brogna he left with his possessions, and the law books which he has been studying while he has been confined...