Word: hennepin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnesota's Gag Law, passed by the State Legislature in 1925, gives any district judge power to suppress any publication which in his opinion prints "malicious, scandalous and defamatory matter." To Hennepin County District Judge Fitting applied County Attorney Floyd B. Olson, in 1927, for an injunction to suppress the Minneapolis weekly, The Saturday Press. Said Attorney Olson: The Saturday Press was "a scandal sheet"; it had "maliciously slandered" him.* Judge Fitting agreed with Plaintiff Olson, issued a temporary injunction against The Saturday Press. Publishers Howard A. Guilford and J. M. Near appealed to the State Supreme Court...
...Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms. In 1924 he was chosen Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Commissioner, was re-elected...