Word: mcgill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first state board of censorship on literature was set up in Georgia last week. Its purpose: to keep "obscene" literature out of the state. When the Georgia legislature passed the bill to create the board last month, Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill warned that the definition of obscenity is "so vague" that the law "lends itself to distortion and abuses." The bill's definition of obscenity: "Literature offensive to chastity or modesty." Last week, when the three-man board took office, it became plain how right Editor McGill had been. Board Chairman James Wesberry, a Baptist minister, was asked...
...McGill University's debaters taking the negative on the question of whether Spain should be admitted to the North Atlantic Treats Organization defeated Frank Dison 65 and John Miskinson '55 of Harvard Saturday night...
When the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 171,500) ran a fact-packed series on sloppy state traffic enforcement, Superior Court Judge Horace E. Nichols took out after the paper. He demanded that the paper print the evidence he submitted to prove that the series was wrong. Constitution Editor Ralph McGill refused. Highhanded Judge Nichols forthwith cited McGill and Managing Editor William Fields for contempt of court, fined them each $200 and sentenced them to 20 days in jail (TIME, May 12). Last week, in what the Constitution called "a historic decision," Georgia's supreme court unanimously overruled Judge Nichols...
...Crimson started the season with a 6 to 1 victory over McGill, then beat M.I.T. 7 to 2. Usually strong Dartmouth was humiliated 9 to 0, and Amherst's weak team was also shuf...
After the service, Chaplain John McGill Krumm expressed his regret that Ike was soon to give up the presidency of Columbia. "I hate to see you go," said...