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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edgar Howard of Nebraska-long hair à la W. J. B. A heavy face also resembling the Commoner's. A high whiny voice, pleading at times. His favorite sport is asking "innocent questions" which convulse the House with laughter, for he has wit. He calls himself "a free Democrat." At home he is a newspaper publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

While citizens wondered whether Justice Bailey was a discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Stewart Aquibble | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...lectures will be given in Emerson J, at 8 o'clock on Friday evenings, December 7 and 14, and January 11, 18, and 25. They will be open to the public free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECEMBER 7 SET AS DATE OF FIRST 1928-29 NOBLE LECTURE | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

...were under some suspicion by the conservative puritans who deprecated anything new. The name of Harvard protected it from much criticism which might otherwise have attacked it. Since no criticism assailed the innovation no restrictions were placed on what the Glover-Daye press sought to print. The printers were free to accept, refuse, and print whatever their whims dictated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard College Sponsored First Printing Press Set Up in U. S. A. | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

...theological pamphlet printed in England, but written by a Springfield, Massachusetts man. William Pynchon, came into circulation. It was entitled "The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption." Here may be seen the development of the religious issue in the press, appearing simultaneously with the questioning of the right of free public discussion. Though Pynchon's pamphlet aroused some criticism, no censorship of the press resulted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard College Sponsored First Printing Press Set Up in U. S. A. | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

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