Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, former Under Secretary of State George Edwin Olds issued the now famous State Department handout to the press in which the Government of President Calles was referred to as a "Bolshevist hegemony...
...usually your only legal redress is to sue for libel. Not so in Minnesota. There they have a "Newspaper Suppression Act," called by libertarians a "Gag Law." Last week State Chief Justice S. B. Wilson ruled that the law does not violate the constitutional provision guaranteeing freedom of the press...
...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; the appeal was denied, the injunction made permanent. Last...
...course of a series of 13 articles on vice in Minneapolis, The Saturday Press said that Attorney Olson was either blind to conditions or had a motive for not prosecuting...
When Iturbi finished his program no one left Carnegie Hall. Many rushed forward to watch his square fingers more closely, called for encore after encore. He will play once more in Manhattan, then go westward again. Now that he is a success there will accompany him the kind of press stories the public most eagerly devours. Many will be interested to know now that he likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes...