Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also the smaller ones scattered about the country, and to assemble the material at Yale. There, Historian Leonard Labaree will set up a "Franklin factory'' to do the editing job. Over the next 15 years, with funds raised from friends and alumni, the Yale University Press will publish the Franklin volumes...
...Brazilian Communist Party has been outlawed since 1947, but it still has some 60,000 members. Its newspapers are illegal, but are tolerantly allowed to publish. Its boss, Luis Carlos Prestes, has been hunted by the cops for seven years. Last week the missing chieftain published in the outlawed press some instructions for the illegal party...
...work by 5 a.m., and told his Cabinet he expected them to work 20 hours a day when necessary. He announced that Malacanan would henceforth be known as the "official residence," not the palace; he would be called Mister, not Excellency; and he and all top officials would immediately publish a full statement of their assets. (His own: $13,179.) He set up a "Complaints and Action Commission." He dictated an executive order that complaint telegrams may be sent for 10 centavos, or free should that be too much for a poor man to pay. He wanted to sign...
...Congress passed the Federal Communications Act, Section 605 of which provided that "no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning ... to any person." Penalty: $10,000 fine or two years' imprisonment, or both. The history of the section indicates that Congress did not intend it to regulate wiretapping; the wording was lifted out of the Radio Act of 1927, where the apparent intent was to prevent pirating of messages by rival communications companies. But the Supreme Court applied Section 605 to wiretapping...
...Newhouse's Long Island Star-Journal, which got ready to take full-page paid ads of comics and features from struck papers. But when the paper's stereotypers refused to cast the "struck work," the paper "regretfully" announced that, "under the circumstances," it would not publish the paper...