Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the HDC announced its selection of the Miller Play last spring the club last week decided to substitute the Shakespeare production. But instead of opening the play in Cambridge, the HDC will take it on tour for two weeks prior to its opening here...
...Massachusetts court ruled against the Sunday censorship declaring that it was "void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press...
...issue of TIME, that "New York is still far behind many other cities in its municipal services . . . with filthy potholed streets and clumsy police." Today we have the largest police force in our city history, and a report issued by Police Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams just prior to his resignation showed a drop of 13% in major crimes during the past six months, which is evidence of the ability and service of our police...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state's censorship law (part of the Puritans' 300-year-old Sunday blue laws) is unconstitutional, "void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press." The decision resulted from a suit by Brattle Films, Inc. when state censors refused to allow Sunday showings of Sweden's Miss Julie. ("The girl in it is illegitimate; how would you like for your sister to see a film about an illegitimate girl?" a censor asked a theater manager...
They should agree to renounce the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons." Vyacheslav Molotov was ready with seeming concessions. He accepted a Western disarmament point that atomic weapons, prior to prohibition, could be used for defense against aggression-but with the proviso that the U.N. Security Council (where Russia has a veto) is the sole arbiter of what constitutes an act of aggression...