Word: prewitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Baker: "The right to gather news is a property right. The publication of news, publicity of trials, is among the great safeguards of liberty in a free country. If what Judge Prewitt has done in this case can be done, then it is within his discretion to exclude any representatives of any newspaper, and all representatives of all newspapers, and hold a star chamber session from which the observing eye of public .opinion has been withdrawn." The offending editorial, Lawyer Baker thought, was "exceedingly temperate." Lawyer Allan Prewitt: "Are you going to let that paper stay across the border...
...Judge Prewitt (smiling broadly): "Well, the boys have won out over New- ton Baker...
Stung by editorial criticism of his conduct of the Kentucky mine murder trials, Judge Henry R. Prewitt ruled that no representative of the Knoxville News-Sentinel (Scripps-Howard) may sit in his court "until that paper retracts the libelous, slanderous, false statements it has published about this and other Kentucky courts...