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...Publisher Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune presented the report of his Freedom of the Press Committee. Col. McCormick is a he-champion of Freedom of the Press. Last fortnight he indignantly announced the withdrawal of the Tribune's correspondent from Moscow because the Soviet censors would permit only twaddle to be wired out of their perfect commonwealth (TIME, April 29). Last week he fell upon Minnesota's so-called...
...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...
Gravely to his fellow publishers Col. McCormick declared: "The possibility that such a law could legally be adopted and enforced would cause newspaper properties everywhere to be of small or doubtful value...
...flew when he read these words was towering, to say the least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government of equal power!" His reply was to expel the Tribune's correspondent, George Seldes,* thus preventing potent, four-fisted, he-publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson from executing their threat. In due time the "World's Greatest Newspaper" calmed down and sent other representatives to Moscow who have submitted tamely to the Red censorship for several years. Last week, however, the dander of Chicago's McCormick was again...
Supporters of the institute include Marshall Field III, Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, Harold Fowler McCormick. They are businessmen and know the inducements of advertising. Hence in Chicago newspapers have appeared full page advertisements warning of the dangers of sexual promiscuities and of the ravages of venereal diseases, urging the afflicted to hasten to their doctors or to Institute clinics. President-Elect Malcolm La Salle Harris of the American Medical Association has recommended that Chicago take over the Institute as a social activity...