Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs of Harvard political clubs... is beyond all defense or excuse." The meddling in this case was an editorial on Feb. 20 entitled "Mr. Thomson's Tactics." Manahan further states that "If the CRIMSON is to make any pretense of being an 'impartial observer' of the Harvard scene, a paper of merit, it must leave the path of 'cheap politics' which it has travelled too often in the past." The idea ventured here is a trifle myopic...
...University of Texas swims in a $240,000,000 endowment fund, a respectable sum which will grow so long as the University's oil and natural gas holdings are profitable. When the University's student paper, The Daily Texan, ran editorials early this month decrying the Fulbright-Harris bill as a giveaway to oil and gas interests, the Texas Board of Regents was upset...
...Regents ordered closer faculty supervision of the editorial page and demanded that political opinions stay out of the paper. The editors immediately howled about censorship and lamented the death of a free press. They warned that the action was just another instance where legislators had stifled free education in state institutions with politically-oriented-views...
With praiseworthy calm and research, the Texan's supporters declared that the newspaper receives no money from the state. Rather, they contended, it receives funds from subscriptions and advertising and even makes its own investments. This overlooks the fact that the paper's offices are in a University building. A stronger argument shows that the law does not apply to the newspaper since it pertains only to state employees and agencies; neither heading fits the long-independent Texan. The friends of the free press also held that the law attempts to discourage lobbying or political activity but has no effect...
Last week disaster struck. Mike Kaplan, a reporter for the trade paper Variety, after checking Nugent's credentials at the British consulate, headlined the bad news. The consulate's information officer had reported that Nugent was not listed in either Debrett's or Burke's Peerage...