Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
This law provides that anyone who publishes "a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical is guilty of a nuisance" and may be enjoined from further publication. In the fall of 1927 two men started publishing a Minneapolis weekly paper called The Saturday Press. After publishing nine issues they were hailed into court and the publication ordered suspended. They pleaded that the law was unconstitutional. The Minnesota Supreme Court held otherwise. Under the law the two publishers were perpetually enjoined from publishing their "nuisance" under the name of The Saturday Press or any other name. The case...
...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...
...Washington, a Mrs. Mates posed last week for press photographers with her son, Henry Mates. He. aged five, was bald as an egg. She said that a fox-terrier puppy had jumped at him, scared him. Within six hours all his hair dropped...
President-Elect Hutchins conducted himself skilfully in his first meeting with the press. In the best tradition he disclaimed any revolutionary ideas, and balanced his disclaimer with "I do have great ambitions for the future growth. . . ." For something to talk about, he said he "wondered" how he would feel about having co-eds under his charge. He expressed no alarm when he learned that his new charges had recently held a vote to determine their "MOST BEAUTIFUL MALE," had chosen pompadoured Captain Virgil Gist, of the University basketball team...