Word: print
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July the Board of Regents of this university ordered that the liberty of the Daily Texan, the student daily newspaper, to print what it chose should be virtually annihilated. Their dictatorial decree, enforced by an Editorial Advisory Committee, excluded from the news and editorial columns all "libelous material, improper personal attacks, reckless accusations, opinions not based on fact, inaccurate statements, articles on national, state and local political questions, indecencies, material detrimental to the good conduct of the student body, and material prejudicial to the best interest of the University; and any material in conflict with good taste or wise...
...with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
...diamonds. Next morning London society columns omitted Mrs. Simpson but named every other occupant of the Royal Box. This sort of malicious snub recently provoked His Majesty personally to write Mrs. Simpson's name in his Court Circular and thus force the London Times to print it (TIME, Oct. 26), but last week Editor Dawson of the Times appeared to be again baiting his King- Emperor...
...Other and even more weighty Britons than the editor of the Times joined cautiously last week in the strange game of saying things off the record which they knew would be rushed into print outside England but not inside. Thus the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, one of the Empire's greatest legal minds, while refusing to address himself to the judicial aspects of a marriage of the King & Mrs. Simpson, intimated that already His Majesty's conduct is fairly disgraceful...
...only one had U. S. blood in his veins, or ever visited and painted in the U. S. Last week the Pennsylvania Museum of Art gave that painter, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, the most comprehensive show of his works ever held in this country. Over 100 paintings, drawings and prints went on view; there were even a small bronze figure and four photographs taken by Degas. To make the show a success, the Louvre, greatest art museum in the world, magnanimously postponed its own projected Degas show, lent three important canvases. These with the rest of the borrowed works...