Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Points based upon the percentage of distinguished departments in the report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction of the American Council of Education...
...under Stuart Perry of the Adrian, Mich. Telegram) and a committee of publishers (under Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer) to "agree upon standards of publicity of judicial proceedings and methods of obtaining an observance of them. . . ." The 18 members met twice, communicated often. Groundwork for the final report, considered at the A. B. A. convention at Kansas City this week, was a report which the A. B. A.'s Special Committee on Publicity in Criminal Trials prepared (but never released) as a result of political complications ensuing from the Hauptmann trial. The half-dozen recommendations which formed...
Recommendation in this week's report to the A. B. A.: "That attendance in the court room during the progress of a criminal trial be limited to the seating capacity of the room...
This recommendation regarding picture-taking provided the one discordant note in the committee's report. After the report was printed, says a stapled addendum, "a divergence of recollection" arose on this topic. No surprise to newspapermen was this divergence when Managing Editor Harvey Deuell of the New York News was revealed as an active participant in the discussions. The News alternately practices and impugns every bravura trick of modern tabloid journalism and would suffer greatly unless the picture strictures were eased. Other members of the newspaper committees also thought the original recommendation an "excessively drastic restriction." Accordingly the amended...
...judge ever won wider approval for conducting a trial with dignity and fairness than solemn, paternal Judge Trenchard. The A. B. A. committee report does not imply otherwise, is more concerned with the antics which go on outside the courtroom and beyond the judge's normal jurisdiction. To keep trials decent outside as well as inside, the report concludes: "This committee is clear that if local bar associations would resolutely enforce the obvious and known requirements of the code of professional ethics upon the lawyers who are subject to the disciplinary actions of the Bar, a very substantial part...