Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite 75-year-old Publisher William Randolph Hearst, 74-year-old Los Angeles Times Publisher Harry Chandler is the pet antipathy of West Coast liberals. Yet last week, Los Angelenos who wanted to support their own concept of a free press found themselves also supporting rock-ribbed old Harry Chandler...
...hailed the conviction of a group of C. I. O. sit-down strikers before the court had passed sentence; the other opposed a pending probation plea of two A. F. of L. members convicted of assault. When the Times published two editorials denouncing the suit as an attempt at press censorship, the Bar Association added them to its charge of contempt. All the editorials, the Bar Association claimed, were efforts to influence the court and interfere with the orderly administration of justice...
Fortnight ago, Judge Wilson overruled almost all the Times's demurrers, ordered a trial. Some of his reasons: freedom of the press is subordinate to the independence of the judiciary; an article may constitute contempt even if the judge involved never sees it; the question is not what effect the article did have but what effect it might have had; contempt is committed if an article "places the judge in such a position that he will never know whether he was unconsciously biased by its publication"; a case is pending and cannot be commented upon while it is still...
...demurrer hearings, the trial last week was a mere formality. The Times-Mirror Co., Publisher Chandler and Managing Editor L. D. Hotchkiss were found guilty of contempt, fined a total of $1,050. Attorney Cosgrove, preparing an appeal, warned: "If the decision. . . is sustained, freedom of the press as it is known and as it has been practiced by the journals of the nation is gone forever...
...when Newscaster Carter took the microphone for his final broadcast, he devoted his time to reading aloud, from Philosopher John Stuart Mill's essay Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, excerpts relating to the evils of violating freedom of speech and the press. At the close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series...